[mythtv] mythmovie grabber issue (ToS)

[Xavier Hervy]

Josh Lefler wrote:
> I'll leave the legal discussion to the developers with commit rights 
> or the legal experts except to say that the Cineworld ToS says:
> "Except as expressly permitted herein, no portion of the information 
> on the Web Site may be reproduced in any form, or by any means, 
> without prior written permission from the Mark owner."
>
> and the Empire Cinemas ToS Says:
> "Save as expressly permitted in these Terms of Use or elsewhere in 
> this website material from this website may not be copied, reproduced, 
> republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way."
How did I not spot this myself ?
>
> As to the technical issue I raised:
>
> I understand your point, but I think there is a chance for conflicts 
> in some scenarios.
>
> In your scenario with different companies providing their own theater 
> data for a set area, you are absolutely right that conflicts wouldn't 
> be an issue. However, I could easily see a scenario where a company 
> has theaters in City A, City B, and City C. On their page for City A 
> it lists movies from both A and B and on their page for City C it 
> lists movies for both City B and C. (This would be most likely to 
> occur if City B was between A and C and they wanted individuals in 
> each market to see all of their reasonably close choices.)
>
> If a consumer lived in City B and wanted to see listings for A, B, and 
> C, they would run into duplicates.
No conflict as you get the show times per theatre (as you can see in 
both previous web site)
>
> It may not be a big enough concern to eventually write code to 
> address, but I do think its a large enough concern to be considered.
>
> Best of luck implementing whatever solution works out.
>

Any way it is dead end too.  For non US countries, mythmovie will stay 
"officially" a useless plugin.


Xavier