There has been a similar debate in professional chess as well. Grandmaster Evegny Sveshnikov has spoken out about game scores--the sheets of moves made in a gam

There has been a similar debate in professional chess as well. Grandmaster Evegny Sveshnikov has spoken out about game scores--the sheets of moves made in a game that the players write during the game--being the IP of the players. His arguments haven't really caught on, and so far high level chess games have essentially been in the public domain as soon as they're played.