UPDATED:After the Federal Court of Australia issued its findings on the IceTV vs. Channel 9 Electronic Program Guide (EPG) court case- and its not good news for the free-to-air EPG TV provider.
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According to the ruling by Justice Bennett, IceTV will be prevented from providing any of Channel 9’s EPG information in any one or more of the following categories: episode titles; episode numbers; information about the currency of programs; information about the formats in which programs are to be broadcast; closed captioning information for the hearing impaired; program classification information; and or consumer advice.
In other words IceTV is stopped from reproducing in a material form; authorising the reproduction in a material form of; communicating to the public; or authorising the communication to the public of, the whole or a substantial part of any Nine Weekly Program Schedules (whether made before or after the date of the making of this order), without the licence of the applicant.
