I dropped on this purely by accident and if I have followed up incorrectly I apologise. There is very old legal precedence that the reporting of public sporting events and the scores etc of the games is in the public domain. Once you have made a move in chess (or played a shot in a cricket match which is our area of interest) it becomes a fact and as such not subject to copyright. Provided the games are given just as straight factual reports they are not subject to any restriction, the format they are in and any comments by the players of course remain protected, I believe this was decided in about 1860 in a case where a Newspaper was sued for publishing a cricket scorecard. -- Jeff Green Systems Manager CricInfo Limited +44 (0) 20 8427 2660 +44 (0) 7970 474986
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