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- From: mikes@bioch.ox.ac.uk (Mike Smith)
- Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
- Subject: Re: UK teletext server
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.114428.916@newton.bioch.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 11:44:28 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.153202.17519@ohm.york.ac.uk> <1k1cjvINNorb@uk-news.uk.sun.com>
- Organization: Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
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- Originator: mikes@newton.bioch
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- In article <1k1cjvINNorb@uk-news.uk.sun.com>, john.slater@uk.sun.com (John Slater) writes:
- |> 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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- But what about satellite? I know there are different rules regarding showing
- programs in front of audiences, so maybe it'd be different for teletext pages
- too?
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- Anyway, I would have thought ITV would be only too happy to have their teletext
- pages transmitted freely (so long as the adverts go with them).
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- Has anybody actually asked any of these companies?
-
- Mike Smith
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