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- From: john.slater@uk.sun.com (John Slater)
- Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
- Subject: Re: UK teletext server
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 18:47:27 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- References: <1993Jan19.153202.17519@ohm.york.ac.uk>
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- In article 17519@ohm.york.ac.uk, pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (Pete French) writes:
- ->Can anyone give me an idea of the legal problems that would be caused
- ->by putting a machine onto the internet to serve pages from UK teletext.
- ->This would be a nice thing to have, but I know that, at least in this country,
- ->you need a UK TV lisence to receive CEEFAX teletext onto a computer (colour
- ->or monochrome depending on your monitor I believe !)
- ->
-
- It's worse than that. Ceefax pages are covered by BBC copyright, and
- you're not allowed to feed them to all and sundry (just as you're not
- allowed to videotape your favourite show and distribute tapes to all
- your friends). I'm sure the same goes for Teletext on ITV and C4.
-
- And before someone says "but it's OK because I'm not charging money for
- it", this has no bearing on whether the copyright laws have been
- broken.
-
- John Slater
- Sun UK
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