Dear all Ok. The BDS and TV listings email. Nothing to worry about.
BDS/Red Bee are one of the BBC's many suppliers and they are required from time to time to chase publishers for copyright royalties on behalf of the BBC and ITV. When doing so though, they are sometimes unaware of all of the circumstances surrounding how that data is being used or published. Apologies. So just to make absolutely clear. The BBC will continue to make our listings available for free (as part of the TV Anytime feed) and we are keen for developers as part of the remit of backstage to continue to be able to create and be innovative with the usage of that data. That's why we ran a competition last summer for redesigning TV listings data and that's why our R&D team recently released this API: http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/api/index.html (more on this at Chris Bowley's blog: http://fridayforward.com/2006/05/bbc-content-api.html) That said it is made available only as part of the backstage licence http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/terms_of_use.html It does have to be for non-commercial usage. And obviously it only refers to BBC TV and radio data and not other broadcasters. So you are free to continue to use this data in this way and hopefully demonstrate many more ideas such as this. http://www.daden.co.uk/consulting/pages/000296.html Wi Fi rabbits reading out BBC TV listings. Brilliant. (thanks to Daden/Dave Burden.) And Mario's excellent now/next modules which he circulated to the list yesterday... http://bbcmodules.menti.net/ cheers Jem Stone, backstage.bbc.co.uk > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy Stone > Sent: 23 June 2006 13:07 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [backstage] Publishing TV listings? BDS are after you... > > Dear all > > Thanks for your emails alerting to this issue both on list > and off list. > I'm doing some digging behind the scenes and will get back to > the list asap clarifying the issues raised. Hopefully later > this afternoon. > > Thanks > Jem, backstage.bbc.co.uk > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Cowlishaw > > Sent: 23 June 2006 12:47 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [backstage] Publishing TV listings? BDS are > after you... > > > > On 6/23/06, Adam Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 should point out here that BDS are not funded by the license fee, > > they are a private company, so this may not be true. > > > > > > cheers, > > > > > > Tim > > - > > 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]/ > > > > - > 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]/ > - 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]/
