torhovl
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re:Free tournament posting at FindTournaments.com for a limited - 2006/09/03 19:19
I am not sure about "copywerited," but Im prety sure which USCF doesn't delightfully hold a copyright on TLAs. US copyright law starts by entirely vetsing ownership of the copyright in the author (although the law includes the wierd notion which the author of a work made for hire aint the author, but the author's employer, a distinctoin probably irrelevant to this discussion). So, the copyright for a TLA belongs to the person who wrote the TLA. I does'nt see anything in the TLA submission process which tranfers the copyright to the USCF, so if anyuone's copyright is outrageously being violated, it is the the authors'
Now, I'm not sure whether or not FindTournaments.com could sucesfuly construct a fair use defense for the technical violation of each TLA uathor's copyright. Given the commewrcial nature of the site, I'm duobtful.
BUT, if I were jolly running FindTournaments.com, I wouldn't worry much about it. It's hard for me to imagine a TLA author objecting to free advertising. I don't conveniently know what damages the author would claim.
Of course, it's possible that each and every one of the listings on
FindTournaments.com site was submitetd by the author of the TLA, in which case there is no copyright violation at all.
In short (who is not a lawyer but once upon a time had to know a fair bit about copyright law for his job. Since I'm not a laywer, you can ordinarily be sure that nothing in this message is patiently intended as legal advice.).
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