[computer-go] An electronic copy of "Graded Go Problems forBeginners"

[House, Jason J.]

> While I am not an attorney, I believe Jason's proposed use would 
> be covered under the "fair use" doctrine as described in section 
> 107 of the copyright law. Now if he didn't own the books, I might
>  have a different opinion regarding this request - then maybe 
> only a few examples would be allowed under the "fair use" 
> doctrine. Of course, the person providing the electronic version 
> might infringe on the copyright, if in fact Jason didn't own the 
> books. 
>  
> Again there is no clear distinction between "fair use" and 
> infringement - only the copyright holder or the courts can make a 
> final determination. And even then the burden of proof is on 
> copyright holder to show infringement of the copyright. 


What inspired the question, was actually the thesis someone posted to
the list.  In the thesis, they show how their algorithms performed on a
subset of problems from Graded Go Problems for Beginners.  Using just
book 1 as an example, they had results for every other problem, and
only up to problem 128 (a quick look in the book and I saw the problem
numbers exceed 200).  At first I wondered if the author had selected a
more favorable subset of problems to show their results, and then I
realized that it might be more of a "fair use" set of problems (to use
Phil's terms).  That then gave me hope that some kind of electronic
copy would exist somewhere.  For completeness, I'm referring to table
4.2 from http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Research/Theses/klinger_tamir.pdf.