> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Uther > Sent: Saturday, 16 April 2005 6:30 PM > To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Australian TV grabber (tv_grab_au) > > > On 16/04/2005, at 2:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Blindly following various HOWTO's on myth installation lead me to > > believe that the Nine MSN tv_grab_au in the forums was perhaps the only > > one around that people were using... this may be quite far from the > > truth! > > > > I'm not quite sure what to do about this now. Rohbag's d1.com grabber > > looks quite complete and is well written, and is *perhaps* the legally > > least dodgy option (?) --- is this what most people are using now? > > I was using the D1 grabber until recently. I don't think it is the > least legally dodgy option. Copyrightable materials are considered > protected unless you have a license. With no license, you cannot use > the data. People currently use the D1 data under an implied license > because the data is available on the web. In court, that implied > license may only be worth the paper it is written on. > > The Australian Community TV guide ( http://tvguide.org.au/ ) is much > less legally dodgy. The data there is licensed under the creative > commons license. I have a, very simple, grabber for that data here: >
How is it less "legally dodgy" if people read their TV guide and manually enter in data, rather than downloading the data directly? I don't really see the difference, other than one is a lot more trouble and error prone. Damon
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