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Date:      Sun, 14 May 2000 00:18:00 -0400
From:      "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net>
To:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already?
Message-ID:  <391E28F8.EB2C7028@mail.ptd.net>
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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.




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