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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 25 2012 @ 05:43 PM EDT |
Well, of course it's about copyright to an extent. A cable company isn't allowed
to show the programming at all without permission from the copyright holder.
That permission comes in the form of a contract.
But does the contract prohibit time shifting? Of course you can do that
yourself, but that doesn't mean the cable company is allowed to do it.
Does the contract prohibit streaming? Obviously this can't be real time, since
you can't skip ads into the future, so it could be interpreted as streaming.
Will it be? I dunno.
Sure, I'd like to be able to skip ads more conveniently too. But the real world
consequence is that broadcast channels will just end up charging cable companies
a lot more. I don't know what they charge now, but I'm betting it's a lot less
than, say, ESPN.
So either you'll end up paying more for cable tv, or broadcast channels will
block their channels on cable, or they'll go out of business (not likely in the
near term). I'm not taking sides which is better ...just sayin'.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 25 2012 @ 05:48 PM EDT |
Oh...I should've on fair use...
I don't think watching the *entire* tv show should qualify as fair use. Or
reselling a magazine with all the ads blacked out with a marker. Or, to put it
closer to home, removing all the comments and copyright notices, from a GPL
program, leaving only the desirable content, and compiling it into a proprietary
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| Authored by: darrellb on Saturday, May 26 2012 @ 07:35 AM EDT |
I wonder if CBS has filed copyright registrations on their compilations. That
is, the specific combination of broadcast content and commercial content? It
would seem that to claim a compilation, CBS would be filing thousands upon
thousands of copyright registrations a year. One for each set of show(s) plus
commerical(s) that they wish to protect as a whole.
Otherwise, where is the compilation and where is the copyright registration that
must exist prior to filing suit?
The network can't sue of making a derivitive of a single show since the show
itself isn't modified. The network can't sue over *not* making a derivitive of a
commericial, even assuming that the network owns the commericial becuase the
commerical isn't modified.
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- Filing copyright - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 26 2012 @ 08:21 AM EDT
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