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Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > Chess games cannot be copyrighted. I don't know if you play chess, > but if you do, you must know that chess games can be works of art, > they can be extremely nontrivial, and contain exhilarating, new > ideas that noone before had thought of. > > And yet, if you publish a game that you played, everyone is legally > and morally free to republish it however he wants, without paying you > a dime. Why? Because chess games are not intellectual property. A real game possibly can't be copyright, but an account or description of a game certainly can be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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