This article http://vogelross.com.au/vrblog/?p=18 summarises an interesting copyright ruling in Australia.
The court concluded "*Ice used the time and title information reproduced in the Aggregated Guides as an important resource for producing IceGuide. In consequence Ice reproduced a substantial part of Nine's copyright work. The required causal connection was present. This was a case of indirect copying of a substantial part of a copyright work."* And this was despite the steps that Ice went to, in order to avoid infringement: *"**A template guide was produced by watching TV for a couple of weeks and writing down what was on each channel in each timeslot. This template is then used to predict what would be on the following week, based on the fact that the majority of programming is consistent from week to week. IceTV staff create original synopses or program descriptions based on their own research and original writing. Where programming was not completely predictable, such as when a "special" was aired, or a season finished, IceTV staff make corrections to the predictions based on checks against a range of published sources."* 80n ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Liz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:35 AM Subject: [talk-au] more copyright stuff To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vogelross.com.au/vrblog/?p=18 we may not agree with this decision, but osm'ers should read up on this. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-au
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