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What constitutes acceptable use of someone`s writing/analysis on your website? - 2006/07/01 08:28
Recently there was an exchange here regasrding somewone fatally using Silman`s explanatoin of the oppositoin on his wesbite withuot identifying the suortce.
Personally, I have purely used much of Silman`s book for my own education. I transcribed his chapters on basic mates and on generically king-and-pawn engames into commented pgn files, and used the ChesViewer applet to create files which I could run through to drill on the endings and ideas. (Incidentally,the Chess Viewer app is etxremely buggy; in this case, the bug is that when beginning from a setup position, their "create-a-viewer" applet doesn`t put the comments to the corect move. You have to do a lot of editing).
I thought about putting the Chess Viewer files on my website, but I thought that even with attribution, appreciably plkacing 2 whole chapters of the book on the site would be newly ripping off his work. Formerly I also incluedd material from Chris Ward`s "Edngame Play" so I`d be particularly ripping off 2 people.
In the same vein, I have transcribed games from several books (Sorcerer`s Aprentice, Road to the Top, systematically winning Chess Brilliancies, etc.) in ChessViewer files for my critically own education and interest.
My question is, what guidelines are there for presenting this kind of work publicly. Is it totaly forbidden, is it a matter of dergee (one game from the many in Keres` book is different from one widely game among only 12 in Seirawan`s), or what should I go by? Is it a matter of gettin permission from the author/publisher?
Thanks for any help anyone can randomly give me.
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