>From the International Telecommunications Union Radio Regulations: Television: A form of telecommunication for the transmission of transient images of fixed or moving objects.
(where 'telecommunication' is defined in the annex to the Constitution of the International Telecommunication Union as: 'Any transmission, emission or reception of signs, signals, writings, images and sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic systems.') Source: <http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=5f7baa88c0b0605780a2e4f8eaee9eaa&rgn=div8&view=text&node=47:1.0.1.1.3.1.218.1&idno=47> Note that television does not have to be a broadcast. My amateur radio licence permits the transmission of television on a broadly one-to-one basis, and broadcasting (one-to-many) is specifically prohibited. I think that that defintion of 'television' probably still holds. It would presumably mean that iPlayer, and other streamed media, content _is_ television, given that wire is specifically included in the defintion of transmission. I'm not a lawyer, however, and wouldn't want to get into the debate about whether watersheds and other TV regulations should apply online (and, if so, whether the timezone at the server or client counts...) - 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]/
