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Date:      Fri, 19 May 2000 14:46:32 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already?
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In-Reply-To: <392475F3.513EE781@mail.ptd.net>
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At 05:00 PM 5/18/2000, Thomas M. Sommers wrote:

>A chess game is an event, not a literary or artistic work of any sort. 
>You could not more copyright a chess game than you could copyright a
>walk in the park.

Ah, but performers routinely prohibit recording or videotaping of
plays and concerts, claiming a copyright on those "events."
Likewise, the NFL and NBA claim copyrights baseball and football
games, and have claimed that people who compile statistics and scores
by watching licensed broadcasts are creating derivative works.

What's more, the so-called "Collections of Information Anti-Piracy
Act" (in the US Congress but not passed) would make the scores themselves
the intellectual property of the league. You couldn't reproduce sports stats 
at all without a license.

There's got to be a balance here, but with big money and big corporations
in control of Congress things are out of kilter. The DMCA is a great
example of taking things too far.

--Brett



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