From: Sam Sloan ISHIPRESS COM> Date: 16 jul 2003 Subject: Re: Copyright of game score At 04:40 PM 7/16/2003 +0200, Daniel M. Toebbens wrote: >I assume, that this is a situation which also applies to chess gamescores >in most western countries. It reminds me of the telefone book case we had >in Germany a few years ago. A company started to sell database programs >for names, adresses and phone numbers. Telekom sued, since all the >information was copied from their phone books. They won, and when the >company resorted to having the phone books re-typed by a few thousand >chinese workers, this was also found to be illegal. > > >For a look into Japanese Copyright Law: >http://www.cric.or.jp/cric_e/clj/clj.html > > >Daniel Toebbens This case would not be won in America, where many companies are selling telephone directories with numbers copied from the telephone book. Sam Sloan