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> Chess One wrote:
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> Oh, no, the statement is quite specific.
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> 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.