| Harold Buck 2006-08-10, 7:42 pm |
| In article <1153304353.829219.259380@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
"raylopez99" <raylopez99@yahoo.com> wrote:
quote:
> Taylor Kingston wrote:
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> I am saying the former. But plagiarism is not a crime, if the
> underlying material is not copyrightable. Pace Fischer, who if memory
> serves me right wanted to copyright his positions, you cannot copyright
> a chess position.
No, but you can copyright the work that goes into compiling a set of
problems, I believe, and you can copyright analysis. And including typos
from another work is pretty good evidence of such copying.
I think it's like the situation with recipes: you can't copyright the
recipe for something (apple pie, say), but that doesn't mean people can
copy your recipe verbatim and publish it in their cookbook. They can,
however, publish a recipe that uses the same ingredients in the same
amounts and whose cooking instructions accomplish the same thing if they
aren't copying you word for word.
--Harold Buck
"Hubris always wins in the end. The Greeks taught us that."
-Homer J. Simpson
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