| Taylor Kingston 2006-08-03, 2:52 am |
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Chess One wrote:
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> "Taylor Kingston" <tkingston@chittenden.com> wrote in message
> news:1153146100.302580.67230@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
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> raylopez99 wrote:
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> Too bad, then, that the money you paid did not go to the original
> authors.
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> --Taylor Kingston makes a charge! Okay - excitment over - Taylor Kingston
> makes a vague charge.
Oh, no, the statement is quite specific.
quote:
> Who can these people be? Is the work out of copyright, are the people dead?
> You will not receive an answer ...
The book in question, The Encyclopaedia of Chess Middlegames (Chess
Informant, Belgrade, 1980), was, I believe, a collaboration between
Matanovic, Krogius, Livsic, Parma, Taimanov and perhaps other Informant
contributors. While chess positions per se cannot be copyrighted, it is
obvious that Schiller simply lifted large portions of the ECM and put
his own name on it. A buyer of Schiller's book in effect paid Schiller
for work done by others.
This is an example of what I meant in reply to Parr's comment about
"months of work" -- that in Schiller's case "days of copying" would be
more accurate.
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