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Question on Posting Match Analysis
Posted By: Steve Mellen In Response To: Question on Posting Match Analysis (svilo)
Date: Tuesday, 16 February 2010, at 5:13 p.m.
Even TV broadcasts of sporting events weren't copyrightable under US law until Congress passed a specific statute making them copyrightable, a decade or two back. Regardless, a TV broadcast is quite different from a box score or a list of the moves in a backgammon game.
As for a backgammon position being a piece of art, that's pretty ludicrous since the exact same position can be created in many different games by different players. If I create a backgammon problem for my local newspaper involving, say, a 3-roll position, my efforts are copyrighted because the analysis and such is my work product, but that hardly means no one can ever publish a 3-roll position again.
If you invite me to watch a match, you can make me promise that I won't record the match before I'm allowed to attend, I guess. If the match is played at an online site, you can presumably bar kibitzers unless you're in an event that forbids you from doing so. But I don't agree you have some generalized right to control the record of the game and prohibit observers from telling people what they watched with their own two eyes. You cannot copyright facts.
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