[mythtvnz] [Fwd: Sky Television: Infringement of rights]

[Simon Green]

On 17 March 2010 04:41, James Gray <james6.0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Somebody needs to take this through court, IANAL but an EPG is a
> collection of facts, which can't be copyrighted in itself.
>
> I remember the first guy who got a takedown notice (years ago, I can't
> remember who is was) got offers for donations to a legal fund, but he
> wanted no truck with it...
>
> It's most frustrating that it always ends up this way
>

In Australia, Nine (the tv network) took IceTV (a for profit company that
provides EPG listings to court). Ice TV lost the first round, but won in the
high court.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/58E69A940B505EACCC25733200726597?Opendocument&HighLight=2,ice,tv
However,
NZ and Australia copyright laws are very different, as pointed out by the
Sensis decision over here (even the phone book can be reproduced here)
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/newmedia/court-shock-right-to-copy-directories-upheld
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