PGN books
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Re: PGN books
This is probably not something that's going to be the same in every country, but in England, it's a breach of copyright.
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Re: PGN books
Only, of course, if the book in question is still subject to copyright: you could, for example, publish "My System" like this and I have long thought this idea is worthy of exploration as a new methos of presentation. It is no different, copyright wise, from the publicatiuon of any Ebook.
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Re: PGN books
can't it be considered taking notes from a book?
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What about paraphrasing the comments?
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No also. It would be illegal. You might get away with it. You probably would not - if it got as far as Court.
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I don't think that would ever happen. With some books priced at 20 pounds and upward without postage and packaging its understandable why some people seek the 'soft' copy. If book prices hadn't increased so much in the 90s and 00s I'm not sure if pdfs would be as sought after as they are now.
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What'd not ever happenMJMcCready wrote:I don't think that would ever happen. With some books priced at 20 pounds and upward without postage and packaging its understandable why some people seek the 'soft' copy. If book prices hadn't increased so much in the 90s and 00s I'm not sure if pdfs would be as sought after as they are now.
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Re: PGN books
Chess is very international. Copyright Laws differ from one country to another. Particularly the US has separate laws, which are somewhat different from the UK. If you use your commonsense and think, 'What would I want as an author?', then you won't go far wrong.
You can copy an extract, perhaps a paragraph of a book, and use that in your description. Or acknowledge the author of a quote you have chosen.
There is no copyright in chess games, but there is in the annotations. To copy these, without even acknowledgement, is plagiarism.
Eventually, books, music, films etc. go out of copyright. Surely the 1924 silent Russian film 'Chess Fever' is out of copyright?
In Britain naive teachers used to photo-copy sheets of music and distribute them to their pupils. Very few realised they were breaching copyright law.
You can copy an extract, perhaps a paragraph of a book, and use that in your description. Or acknowledge the author of a quote you have chosen.
There is no copyright in chess games, but there is in the annotations. To copy these, without even acknowledgement, is plagiarism.
Eventually, books, music, films etc. go out of copyright. Surely the 1924 silent Russian film 'Chess Fever' is out of copyright?
In Britain naive teachers used to photo-copy sheets of music and distribute them to their pupils. Very few realised they were breaching copyright law.
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Re: PGN books
People who copy/translate these in IranStewart Reuben wrote: There is no copyright in chess games, but there is in the annotations. To copy these, without even acknowledgement, is plagiarism.
acknowledge it.
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If you copy annotations, even with acknowledgement, this will be plagiarism if done in bulk. If somebody reviews a book and provides one complete annotated game as an example, this is borderline. Anybody publishing Kasparov's annotations of game 16 of his 1986 match with Karpov would be in brach of copyright. It runs to six pages of his book.
It is entirely deliberate that copyright is waived for FIDE Regulations.
It is entirely deliberate that copyright is waived for FIDE Regulations.
Re: Copyright
Your question has already been answered -
http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php ... ok#p173704
The same applies to e-books.
http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php ... ok#p173704
The same applies to e-books.
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Re: PGN books
Music copyright is a lot more complicated than you suggest.Stewart Reuben wrote:In Britain naive teachers used to photo-copy sheets of music and distribute them to their pupils. Very few realised they were breaching copyright law.