Hi.
What are some good old books, pior to 1923, which are in public domain?
I suppose new books are either not copyright-free, or you cannot translate them freely
good old books (pre 1923)
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IM Jack Rudd
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Re: good old books (pre 1923)
Copyright usually expires 70 years after the author's death, I think. So you'd be safe translating anything by an author who died earlier than 1947.
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soheil_hooshdaran
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Re: good old books (pre 1923)
What about some books that also translated or republished, like books of Lasker, Tarrash?IM Jack Rudd wrote:Copyright usually expires 70 years after the author's death, I think. So you'd be safe translating anything by an author who died earlier than 1947.
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Tim Harding
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Re: good old books (pre 1923)
The copyright would be in that translation ("the expression" as it's called in law) but not the original text, so you would be free to translate a Tarrasch book, for example, if you stick to his text but not anything added by a later editor/translator.soheil_hooshdaran wrote:What about some books that also translated or republished, like books of Lasker, Tarrash?IM Jack Rudd wrote:Copyright usually expires 70 years after the author's death, I think. So you'd be safe translating anything by an author who died earlier than 1947.
If you want something to translate into your own language, I would suggest Tarrasch's Dreihundert Schachpartien (3rd, post-WW1 edition if you can get it) or English version Three Hundred Chess Games, if it's not already been translated?
It would certainly benefit your chess to work through the book slowly!
Your problem might be that most old English-language books are in descriptive notation, whereas the original German is in algebraic.
You can of course get the game scores from a database but would need care when dealing with variations in the notes.
I found a site where this book seems to be available for download:
http://www.usenetreg.com/file.php?q=tar ... game%20pdf
I don't normally approve of bit-torrent sites but as the book is out of copyright it would be OK to get it from there, I guess.
Tim Harding
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Author of 'Steinitz in London,' British Chess Literature to 1914', 'Joseph Henry Blackburne: A Chess Biography', and 'Eminent Victorian Chess Players'
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Historian and FIDE Arbiter
Author of 'Steinitz in London,' British Chess Literature to 1914', 'Joseph Henry Blackburne: A Chess Biography', and 'Eminent Victorian Chess Players'
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Richard Bates
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Re: good old books (pre 1923)
Was 1923 a particularly good year?
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Joshua Gibbs
Re: good old books (pre 1923)
in the states things published before 1923 are generally considered public domainRichard Bates wrote:Was 1923 a particularly good year?
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soheil_hooshdaran
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Re: good old books (pre 1923)
What about the other nations?Joshua Gibbs wrote:in the states things published before 1923 are generally considered public domainRichard Bates wrote:Was 1923 a particularly good year?