Re: [backstage] Publishing TV listings? BDS are after you...

2006-06-22 Thread Kirk Northrop
Adam Leach wrote: This is another point of data collected and gathered using tax/license fee payers money, yet we can't access it without paying substantial fees. The BBC data seems to be fine, someone said. Remember the days when the Radio Times had BBC and the TV Times had ITV? It's like tha

Re: [backstage] Publishing TV listings? BDS are after you...

2006-06-22 Thread Adam Leach
This is another point of data collected and gathered using tax/license fee payers money, yet we can't access it without paying substantial fees. Until this changes small/spare time developers will not have the resources to create innovative web sites and ideas that BBC Backstage are trying to

Re: [backstage] Publishing TV listings? BDS are after you...

2006-06-22 Thread Dave Whitehead
James- Looks like you got the same email that Andrew Flegg of http://www.bleb.org/ got, he manage to get agreement from BDS that using the bbc tvanytime data doesn't require a fee being paid but he's had to remove the ITV data.  You would of thought that tv companies would love for everyone

[backstage] Publishing TV listings? BDS are after you...

2006-06-22 Thread James Cridland
To warn the list: I've just had a veiled legal threat from BDS (a part of Red Bee Media, formerly part of the BBC).The email virtually accuses me of publishing TV schedules against the terms of the Broadcasting Act 1990, and asking me to formerly register my use of TV schedules for BBC (and ITV) so

[backstage] BBC now/next modules using the BBC web API

2006-06-22 Thread Mario Menti
Hi all,I have updated my BBC now/next modules to use the BBC Web API. They now also include radio (with links to BBC radio player for streaming audio) as well as TV stations.Available for google, live.com, pageflakes, and a Mac OS X dashboard widget.More info, download, etc. at http://bbcmodules.c