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

[criggie at criggie.dyndns.org]

Steve Hodge wrote, On 17/03/10 13:15:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:41 AM, James Gray <james6.0 at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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.
>
>
> Some of the EPG information is factual: date, time, content 
> advisories, episode title etc. But stuff like the program descriptions 
> is not. Copying those is probably infringement (note: IANAL either).

I'd guess that Sky pays a fee to the copyright holder via the 
distributor chain for access to the program/season, and part of that 
will cover "supply and permission to use the descriptions etc"

So Sky got sucked into paying for that info themselves.