Utilisation fee for channel-program-data: Open-Source-project TV-Browser will remove private tv-channels

Münster (Germany), 20.12.2007 – The electronic program guide TV-Browser will remove 16 private tv-channels on 1st of january, including German channels ProSieben, RTL Television and Sat.1.

According to a press note by the TV-Browser-Team the collecting society VG Media will start to collect a charge fee for the usage of channel-program-data in EPGs beginning next year. It will be charged between 0.02 and 0.04 € cents per page-view and a fixed fee at at least 2000€. The Open-Source-project can't and doesn't want to pay this charge fee. The developers are consdering right now to just show certain progamm-highlights of these mentioned channels. Additionally a petition has been started to convince VG Media to abandon this charge fee.

Sources
De.Wikinews: Nutzungsgebühren für Programmdaten: Open-Source-Projekt TV-Browser entfernt Privatsender Licence: Creative Commons: By

tvbrowser.org (German press release)
heise.de (German news)
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