Re: copyright on chess games

On Aug 11, 4:04 am, guenter <ster...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
has this ever been decided by some court, whether you can
claim copyright for chessgames or positions
and then successfully prevent others
from publishing the moves ?

Suppose some tournament, where players agree to submit
the rights on the games to the organizer who claims copyright.
Although the spectators and journalists can follow the moves
they mustn't publish them, else they are sued.

Suppose some players who only play under such conditions,
so they can prevent their bad games from being published later...

is it realistic ?

Yes. This has been decided many times and the decision is that there
is no copyright to the moves of a chess game.

There may be exceptions. For example, a composed game clearly
identified as such, for example Sam Loyd's famous composition of a
stalemate in 12, would be copyrightable, but the moves to a normal
tournament game between two contestants could not be copyrighted.

Sam Sloan

.

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