Graeme Mulvaney wrote:
It was started when the head of ITNs' new media dept. announced the release of an applet that circumvents the BBCs' attempts at DRM, and has turned into an attack on the BBCs' reluctance to share its' copyrighted material.
The BBCs' response of "see you in court" was inappropriate given that a component part of this list's mission is about working in partnership with the wider development community (regardless of their employer) to advance the BBC Backstage technologies and data sets/uses.
Copyright is a murky issue when you invite the public to take your data (and therefore your IP) and do "innovative" things with it.
ITN doesn't appear to have a similar initiative, of course that is not to say they won't in the future (it is a brave new world after all); them not having it however should not preclude one of their employees from experimenting in the same way that so many are.
I am surprised Channel 4 hasn't done something like this; I know they are massively focussed on the online world.
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