Hi Buster,
It's probably lost in time but in 2008 IceTV won a copyright battle with Nine which we took all the way to the High Court, at great expense. It was a unanimous ruling in our favour. If we'd lost that would have been the end of our business as Nine were asserting copyright over their programme times and titles but we constructed our EPG data in a way that the High Court found did not contravene their copyright. Nevertheless synopsis were not considered in that judgement and we still write our own for networks that don't give us access to their EPG feeds and you can correctly guess that Nine don't do so.
So... As we have to write that synopsis as well as countless others we prefer to be a little controversial in our comment.
We can't copy Nine's so what would you like us to say:)
It's probably lost in time but in 2008 IceTV won a copyright battle with Nine which we took all the way to the High Court, at great expense. It was a unanimous ruling in our favour. If we'd lost that would have been the end of our business as Nine were asserting copyright over their programme times and titles but we constructed our EPG data in a way that the High Court found did not contravene their copyright. Nevertheless synopsis were not considered in that judgement and we still write our own for networks that don't give us access to their EPG feeds and you can correctly guess that Nine don't do so.
So... As we have to write that synopsis as well as countless others we prefer to be a little controversial in our comment.
We can't copy Nine's so what would you like us to say:)