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Date:      Sat, 20 May 2000 01:43:26 -0400
From:      "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net>
To:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already?
Message-ID:  <392625FE.43D7994B@mail.ptd.net>
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Brett Glass wrote:
> 
> At 05:00 PM 5/18/2000, Thomas M. Sommers wrote:
> 
> >A chess game is an event, not a literary or artistic work of any sort.
> >You could not more copyright a chess game than you could copyright a
> >walk in the park.
> 
> Ah, but performers routinely prohibit recording or videotaping of
> plays and concerts, claiming a copyright on those "events."

Are they claiming copyright to the event, or that when you use your
ticket you incurred a contractual obligation not to record the event?

> Likewise, the NFL and NBA claim copyrights baseball and football
> games, and have claimed that people who compile statistics and scores
> by watching licensed broadcasts are creating derivative works.

The broadcast, of course, is copyrightable, and anything based on it
would be a derivative work.  If you attend the game in person, see
previous comment.



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