2006/12/13, Anders Kierulf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> As game records are not copyrigtable it is within your rights
> to download that file.
Game records may not be copyrightable,
No "may" word needed there. They are historical facts and hence cannot
be copyrigthed at least not in EU.
but collections of game records may
be.
Nope unless (1)they are selected somehow, like 100 best Korean games
of 2005, All Korean games I could find from 2005 does not conform to
this. And (2)in some spesific order, bunch of SGF files does not
conform to this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_directive). Game records in the
collection you mention were taken from GoGoD and SmartGo without permission.
Directive is bit funny in this sense, but for this particular request:
- SmartGo is not protected as you are not member of EU nor is is your
company (this is the funny part, why in earth protect just member
countries). So large part of that collection does not violate anything
- it has more sources although GoGod is probably the largest single
source. For instance Takemiya games and Cho Chikun games can easily
obtained from net anyways.
- And the smart part. Databases can extracted and used for scientific
work. Original requester indicated some sort of research use.
GoGoD (http://www.gogod.demon.co.uk/) has over 42,400 professional games in
SGF format that you can use for data mining.
And you would also get update annually so this is of value to go players
Dunno about research. 1000 more games wont make a difference.
Anders Kierulf
www.smartgo.com
Petri Pitkänen
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