Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:37:07 01/04/00
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On January 04, 2000 at 20:56:51, Bango wrote: >On January 04, 2000 at 19:28:54, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On January 04, 2000 at 18:45:05, Bango wrote: >> >>>On January 04, 2000 at 09:17:26, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>There are two issues: >>> >>>< .....deletion > >>> >>>>(2) the real question is "Who holds the copyright?" The answer should be >>>>"Nunn" unless he signed over the copyright to CSS. >>> >>>It would seem strange if Nunn claims copyright when he clearly trampled all >>over Bobby Fischer's 60 Memorable Games. Not only copyright infringement but >>blatant plagiarism. >>> >>>Nunn cannot have it both ways !! >>> >>>Regards, >>> >>>Bango123 >> >>Substantiate this please. >> >>bruce > >Hello Bruce, > >You may be aware as most chess friends are; that Bobby Fischer wrote a book >called "My Sixty ( 60 ) Memorable Games" in old annotation. Dr. Nunn rewrote >the book utilizing new annotation and added some extra analysis, at least some >claim the analysis is not meaningful. Bobby Fischer became aware of this new >book and filed a lawsuit ( probably copyright infringement ) and now you cannot >purchase Dr. Nunn's edition anywhere, for at least the moment. > >In other words, Dr. Hyatt is stating Dr. Nunn "may" have copyright priviledges >over his test suites, however; as noted above, if he can blatantly copy "My >Sixty Memorable Games" why cannot others use his test suites ?? > >In fact, ARE certain positions on the board copyrightable ?? please read more carefully. _positions_ are _not_ copyrightable. But building a collection of positions is copyrightable. IE a collection called "60 great king and pawn endgames to test your program" would be copyrightable, because work went into finding 60 such positions. Any single position could be used by anybody without fear of copyright reprisal. But using the entire set, or a major portion of the set would be a no-no... > >The positions he has chosen are already "well known" opening positions, so how >can he defend his patent of the square handled coffee cup, when it was there all >along ?? > >BTW I liked you Mick Jagger comparison, it was funny ! -:) > >Now....about that release date of Cinderella Ferret....I see a new chess engine >for Fritz 6 in it's future.... > >Best regards, > >Bango123
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