[mythtv-users] Advice please: school mythtv project

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Wed Apr 28 21:01:24 UTC 2010


On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Johnny Walker <johnnyjboss at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Phil Wild <philwild at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My first thoughts are on legality. Then again IAAL. In NZ law, which
>>>>>> may be different in Oz, it is only legal for A to time-shift for "A's
>>>>>> personal use or the personal use of a member of the household in which
>>>>>> A lives or both"
>>>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> See http://www.screenrights.org/copyright/australia/educational-institutions/schools.php
>>>>
>>> I perhaps should provide a little more info so that people do not need
>>> to go and read the document. In my case, the school is a catholic
>>> school in WA and this screenrights license is in place through the WA
>>> catholic education office allowing the recording, storing and
>>> rebroadcasting within the school of all OTA TV and radio broadcasts.
>>> All government schools in Australia are also covered under this
>>> license. I can't comment on other areas but for my purposes, this is
>>> all legal.
>>
>> good news. I suppose we should deal with your technical questions now...
>>
>> none of which I have any real knowledge of I'm sorry, I hope others can help.
>>
>> One thing though, IM experience teachers are not particularly non
>> techno. They will require a bit of training, and possibly a manual,
>> otherwise you'll be getting calls at all hours...
>
> Ah this I can speak to: enlist the student aides from the Science,
> Computer Science or Media Dept. Training 1 or 2 of them might be very
> helpful even if only for 'remote hands.'

It's a primary school.

>
> You might consider donating them a backend machine that can also run
> MythFrontend and then use MythArchive to export their recordings so
> they can use any dvd player to watch them.
>
> This would mean you didn't have to support anything but a standard installation.
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