[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?
Jay R. Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Wed Jun 20 19:39:15 UTC 2007
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 02:20:54PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> You can't copyright the factual information about a work or
> newsworthy event either, as Major League Baseball, Inc. has been
> finding out, repeatedly.
Sports accounts are perhaps the best analogy to our current situation,
IMO. I hadn't realized the leagues were losing those cases, but I'm
glad to hear they are.
> Now, TMS may have a contract with each and every television
> station in North America... but I suspect that they don't, and
> that they may not even have an exclusivity clause. Consider PBS
> stations.
Indeed. Likely, they're the only ones doing it because they're the
only ones doing.
Titan, though, does *not* appear to be only getting it's data from TMS;
their listings often differ (and Titan is often more accurate).
Cheers,
-- jra
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