Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 08:51:16 01/04/00
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On January 04, 2000 at 09:22:36, Frederic Friedel wrote: >On January 04, 2000 at 08:43:35, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>I wonder, if these 10 simple endgame positions really are copyrighted by Nunn or >>CSS? Is it possible?? Then same copyright must cover also Nunn opening >>positions. Nonsense!! > >ChessBits reprinted verbatim half of an article (introduction, chess commentary >and all) by Dr Nunn without his permission or the permission of the Vögel-Verlag >(publishers of CSS). The second half was announced for the subsequent issue. > >The Vögel-Verlag, publishers of CSS, have paid Dr. Nunn for the unauthorised >reproduction of his article in ChessBits, since they are responsible for >protecting his rights. They seek reimbursement from ChessBits. The editors of >CSS have spent many hours over the past months in an effort to avert legal >proceedings, which would cost many thousands of marks, vs. a few hundred for the >author of the article. We will continue our efforts. High crimes and misdemeanors, Frederic. Do you really want to turn this into a Nunn-gate affair? Will this promote ChessBase? Create sympathy with possible clients? I wanted to congratulate Frans Morsch hereby with the promising results of the latest Fritz 6.X versions, reported here and furthermore would like to say that I appreciate people of ChessBase posting here and answering our questions. Eelco
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