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Old 30th June 2008, 02:54 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Re: ICE or FreeEPG

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Originally Posted by ExtremePC View Post
When you copyright something and distribute it to the public it imediately becomes a product, a product, any product in Australia has a legal criteria to its existence, one of them is that it must be of merchantable quality, yes this is regarless of whether you are giving it away for free or selling it.
Sorry, you've lost me there. Firstly, I doubt whether the broadcast EPG qualifies as a product under the Trade Practises Act - it's just part of the broadcast stream. Secondly, the TPA doesn't apply to the accuracy or otherwise of published data. If it did, most gossip magazines in this country would be in a lot of trouble.
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