Re: Australian tv grabber

Distribution rights? Short answer : no.

If it the site i am grabbing from says it is a "Community Service" and no 
copyright message is given anywhere on the site.

>From your point of view though, you would only be providing a script that 
downloads from my server. There can't be any legal problems with that can 
there?

Elliot

"Robert Eden" <rmeden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> This is the right place.
>
> I don't know if this is a issue Down Under or not, but do you have the
> legal right to redistribute the data?
>
> Most of the commerical web sites allow access for personal use with the
> restriction of not redistributing it.  That's a major reason why the
> XMLTV project distributes grabbers, not data.
>
> If you do have distribution rights, someone with an interest (i.e.
> "itch to scratch") could write  a grabber and I don't see a problem
> with including it in the XMLTV distribution.
>
> Robert
>
> --- Elliot Shepherd <elliot-xmltv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi all.  =)
>>
>> Apologies in advance for this post if it is in the wrong area.
>>
>> I am developing a site which grabs tv listings for about 40 regions
>> in
>> australia and spits it out xmltv format. It already works in fact, i
>> am just
>> trying to make it a bit more bulletproof.
>>
>> I just wanted to know once it's online for everyone, if a simple
>> plugin for
>> xmltv can be made to just grab the data  from my server.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Elliot
>>
>>
>>
>>
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