[mythtv-users] Free US/Canada Listings

[Gabe Rubin]

On 9/11/07, Richard Freeman <r-mythtv at thefreemanclan.net> wrote:
> Chris Petersen wrote:
> >
> > The website owners, copyright owners and copyright licensees have the
> > right to restrict the methods by which people access the information
> > they're providing.
>
> Only within the limits of copyright law.  NFL broadcasts include a
> "terms of use" statement preventing many activities that mythtv probably
> violates.  However, this does not make recording them illegal.
>

Chris' statement should probably be understood that website owners,
et. al., can use contractual restrictions to do what copyright law,
itself, may not provide.  The issue with a lot of these terms of
service are not that copyright law is what makes them meaningful (and
potentially enforceable) but rather common law contract principles.