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- From: mjh@dmu.ac.uk (Mike Howarth)
- Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
- Subject: Re: UK teletext server
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.182518.1604@dmu.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 18:25:18 GMT
- References: <1993Jan27.114428.916@newton.bioch.ox.ac.uk>
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- Mike Smith (mikes@bioch.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
-
- : 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
-
- : 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?
-
- : 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).
-
- : Has anybody actually asked any of these companies?
-
- : Mike Smith
- YES - I have, and several people who have eMailed me also have and It appears
- that the Beeb (and C4/ITV) will listen on an individual basis about
- internal redistibution, but are not keen to see public access
- from other people. To repeat what I said before - One of the main
- problems does not lie in the Beeb's copyright, buit in the large number of
- news/feature gathering organizations that they use, and their copyright !
-
- Mike H.
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