[Guardian cc'd as they have a Free Our Data column] On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 12:58:19AM +0100, Adam Leach wrote: > This is another point of data collected and gathered using tax/license > fee payers money, yet we can't access it without paying substantial > fees.
I presume the commercial channels' data isn't gathered via the licence fee though? The one part of this I *really* don't get is that accurate TV listing data is only going to generate more viewers. So why on earth would you want to restrict it? Surely the channels want users to have accurate up-to-date data in as many places as possible. It's like free advertising. I used to reformat the bleb.org data myself (for local use) into a format I much preferred but given bleb.org isn't supplying a full feed any more I'm stuck using the radio times site. I don't understand why they want to enforce this law or why it exists. Simon. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
