Re: [backstage] Publishing TV listings? BDS are after you...

[Dave Whitehead]

James- Looks like you got the same email that Andrew Flegg of http://www.bleb.org/ got, he manage to get agreement from BDS that using the bbc tvanytime data doesn't require a fee being paid but he's had to remove the ITV data.  You would of thought that tv companies would love for everyone to know when their programmes are on with schedules being the ideal media but sadly not.   I think those who allow it for no fee are in a better position, especially as we're moving toward mass PVR usage.   Dave http://www25.brinkster.com/lakeuk/xmltv/xmltv.htm   ----- Original Message ----- From: James Cridland To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 10:32 PM Subject: [backstage] Publishing TV listings? BDS are after you... To warn the list: I've just had a veiled legal threat from BDS (a part of Red Bee Media, formerly part of the BBC). The email virtually accuses me of publishing TV schedules against the terms of the Broadcasting Act 1990, and asking me to formerly register my use of TV schedules for BBC (and ITV) so that a licence can be given (which costs many hundreds of pounds a year). There isn't, to my knowledge, any special conditions for personal or non-commercial use of this information; and given that they are quoting the Broadcasting Act 1990 at you, I don't quite see how any terms from BBC Backstage are able to over-ride the "law". I'd quote the email here, but it's apparently 'confidential', and I respect the list-owner. I have reprinted it in full elsewhere, though: they didn't read *my* terms and conditions... As an aside: I don't publish TV schedules. Comments welcome, I suppose... -- http://james.cridland.net/contacting_me/