The judge weighs up the arguments of chess24 and World Chess Well-established that sports scores and events, like players' moves in the Championship, He summed up:Īs an initial matter, the Court is not persuaded that WorldĬhess alone can report on the Championship game scores. The NBA – with the court upholding the right of other companies to build

Motorola “Hot News” case that Agon cite was actually lost by The judge goes on to talk about legal precedents, explaining Not to prevail should this action be tried in court World Chess has not met Second, World Chess must show that it is more likely than Rather, theĮvidence presented indicates that Chess24 digests factual information about theĬhampionship from secondary sources and creates its own website content at Or republishing the information for Chess24's own subscribers. That Chess24 would be taking content from World Chess and merely 'free-riding' Moves that World Chess would produce and distribute. Would be pirating, by live redistribution on their websites, the reports of chess Yesterday the full reasoning for the decision was publishedīy the court, with the judge ruling that chess24 was not “pirating” or “free-riding” but creating its own content “at great expense”, while Agon had failed to show it was likely to win the case if it went to trial:įirst, World Chess has failed to demonstrate that Defendants Jan Gustafsson and Peter Svidler in full flow during our World Championship broadcast

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