On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Gerd Lorscheid wrote: > this here is really funny to read. > There are no copyrights on chess games. So what you can do is order > Bigbase for 50 Euro from Chessbase and you have pretty good edited > 4.500.000 games. Bigbase has no annotations, which have copyrights.
I'd be careful before doing this. Some countries have compilation copyrights on large sets of information. Things like the telephone whitepages. I'm sure one of the "Open data" type projects will be able to point you to the relivant law here. http://www.pddoc.com/copyright/compilation.htm http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/database.html -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
