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James Spratt wrote on Tue, Apr 18, 2006 06:26 AM UTC:
I filed for a copyright for my Chess for Three game, and it was returned
'Denied.'  The explanation was that since the board is a geometric
shape, it can't be copyrighted (as opposed to other board-games whose
boards contain artistic graphics,like, say, Risk or Monopoly) the precise
text of any particular version of a rules page can be copyrighted,
although its intellectual content can't, and the sculptural patterns of
the pieces physically produced in 3d can, although their moves cannot.
I don't see anything wrong with just giving something to the world once
in a while; share the joy!