<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tuesday 07 August 2007 17:10, John Drescher wrote:<br><br>> I have never seen or agreed to license agreement on any printed material.<br>> Although, I knew the copyright laws applied. I know I can photocopy a<br>
> printed work as long as I own the work and I do not give the photocopy to<br>> anyone.<br>><br>> The license can impose conditions over and above what the copyright laws<br>><br>> > impose.<br>><br>
> I understand that.<br>><br>><br>> You definitely can't "use it however you want".<br>><br>><br>> I know you can not give it to anyone so that is not what I meant.<br><br>An example would be my situation: I have a program called EyeTV, which I paid
<br>for. It gets listings from TitanTV (who apparently gets the information from<br>TMS).<br><br>When TMS made their announcement I thought about using the Titan info for<br>MythTV, so I looked at the license I agreed to by using the software (and I
<br>don't want to get into the enforceability of "click through" or "break seal"<br>licenses).<br><br>Although written in the best legalese, it seems to say that I can only use the<br>information with the software it came bundled with, thus using it for Myth
<br>would violate the license.<br><br>Granted, if I did use it for Myth, I doubt I would get "caught" or penalized<br>in any way, but I feel I did agree to the license and I will abide by the<br>terms. Even if I did not distribute the data, using it in violation if the
<br>license terms is "wrong", IMHO.</blockquote><div><br></div></div>Brian,<br>I do fully agree a license can be and usually is much more restrictive than a copyright and that any of these licensed listing services (from Tivo ...) will restrict you to using the listings to only their service.
<br><br>John<br>