[mythtvnz] epgsnoop

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Aaron Pelly <apelly at monkeymasters.co.nz> wrote:
> On 2010-03-22, Steve Hodge wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Aaron Pelly
>> <apelly at monkeymasters.co.nz> wrote:
>> On 2010-03-21, Hadley Rich wrote:
>>
>>> Post processing means that you can normalise program titles (CSI, C S
>>> I, C.S.I etc.), get rid of things like "All New The Simpsons" or "Chuck
>>> HD" though that last one is mostly a Sky thing, add category
>>> information, add episode titles, add HD flags, add movie and cast
>>> information etc. etc.
>> It seems plausible that a fairly small amount of cleaning could
>> constitute an original work...
>>
>> A small amount of cleaning would constitute a derived work. You can't
>> take the latest Harry Potter book, fix whatever spelling mistakes
>> haven't yet been caught and republish it without permission. Not even
>> if you change the names...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steve
>>
>
> I see your point, but I don't think that's a fair analogy. Harry potter
> appears to be entirely original, whereas, as discussed previously, the epg
> appears to be a collection of facts. By extension, also from earlier, if
> effort and creative merit are really not correlated, it seems likely that
> regrouping the same facts creates another original work. All I am suggesting
> is that improving the quality of those facts looks like a good thing in this
> regard.

The time and date of the broadcast is probably not a work capable of
protection. (Shortland Strret is on TV2 for 30 minutes at 7.00
tonight.

The descriptions probably are. (Maxwell plays a clever hand with
Sarah, the honeymoon is over for Kieran and Sophie, and Rachel wields
the executioner’s blade).