Hi Ken:
You are right. Legally, the organizers of a tournament “ own “ the score sheets:
CFC Handbook:
http://www.chess.ca/section_4.htm
Article 8,
" 8.3 The score sheets are the property of the organizers of the event. "
So SCC, as the organizer, has the right to demand that if someone plays in the championship section, then they must hand in their originals.
But it is up to the organizers what they will do with the score sheets. They can publicize them or keep them private.
But the executive did not want to follow this path of argument at all. They do not want to enforce their right to the scorsheets. They are willing to let the two opponents decide the fate of the score sheet.
The current policy is " voluntary ". If a player wants to hand in his score sheet, CFC is pleased to receive it to share with the members. If a player does not want to hand in his score sheet, the SCC respects their wishes to keep the game out of the hands of the members and the general Canadian public, through our database, sent to Hugh Brodie, for inclusion in his CanBase Database.
Currently, the policy is however, as well, that one opponent cannot prevent the other opponent from making the game public. Each player has absolute ownership of the game score, and one does not need the permission of the other to make the game public. The desire of one to share the game with the public, trumps the desire of the other to keep it out of the public domain.
The SCC executive is thinking of changing this second principle, to favour the player wanting to keep the game private. One player objecting will keep the game , at least, out of the hands of SCC.
I will let you know if they change the policy this way.
Bob