Court case victory to Chessbase
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Court case victory to Chessbase
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Chessbase must be Vasik Rajlich's best friend, no wonder they can sell a Fruit's derivative illegally.
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What on earth does Vasik have to do with it??kinderchocolate wrote:Chessbase must be Vasik Rajlich's best friend, no wonder they can sell a Fruit's derivative illegally.
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Some people here go bezerk as soon as they see the name ChessBase...Albert Silver wrote:What on earth does Vasik have to do with it??
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In all honesty, Chessbase did chess in general a great service standing up against this nonsense. If game scores were ever genuinely copyrighted it would be the death of chess as we know it.ernest wrote:Some people here go bezerk as soon as they see the name ChessBase...Albert Silver wrote:What on earth does Vasik have to do with it??
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I think the stronger argument was the unfair competition one. If Chessbase had won on that the games still could not be copyrighted, but only not be relayed "live".Albert Silver wrote:If game scores were ever genuinely copyrighted it would be the death of chess as we know it.
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I guess I am missing something. IF Chessbase won on that?Dirt wrote:I think the stronger argument was the unfair competition one. If Chessbase had won on that the games still could not be copyrighted, but only not be relayed "live".Albert Silver wrote:If game scores were ever genuinely copyrighted it would be the death of chess as we know it.
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Nice to see this legal result. I can understand the Bulgarian Chess Federation's beef - lining up sponsors on the strength of exclusivity, but the fact is chess games are not copyrightable and hopefully it'll stay this way
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Indeed.stevenaaus wrote:.......chess games are not copyrightable and hopefully it'll stay this way
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I'm not a chessbase fan, but this case was ridiculous. A "chess game" is "a database", where the entries in the database are "the moves." Talk about a wild stretch. Many courts have already ruled that you can _not_ copyright a chess game, because chess games are "enumerable" and one can write a program which, given enough time, can enumerate every possible game of chess that can be played. In this case, a "bravo" for ChessBase and the courts over there...Albert Silver wrote:What on earth does Vasik have to do with it??kinderchocolate wrote:Chessbase must be Vasik Rajlich's best friend, no wonder they can sell a Fruit's derivative illegally.