[mythtv-users] Advice please: school mythtv project

[Brian Wood]

On Wednesday 28 April 2010 03:01:24 pm Nick Rout wrote:
> 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-institutio
> >>>>ns/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.

Which probably means the students will figure out Myth before most of the 
faculty does :-)