Re: Channel logos in vdr-plugin-markad
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Tobi wrote:
> I intend to upload the vdr-plugin-markad, a VDR plugin which detects
> commercial breaks in VDR recordings.
Sounds useful.
> The plugin uses monochrome masks to support the detection of channel logos.
>
> See: http://www.tighturl.com/59n0
>
> Such a mask isn't the real channel logo, but it was extracted from one.
I guess that makes them derivative works of the original logos and
therefore probably created and distributed without permission of the
copyright owners.
> Should the channel logo masks be stripped from the package?
I expect doing that would make the package useless? Or are there easy
ways for users to create new masks? I guess that would be needed
anyway since the existing masks don't cover the whole world (Australia
is missing for eg).
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bye,
pabs
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