Copyright infringement or ingenious entrepreneurship? You be the judge

[thatcrazycajun]

Read this story from Techdirt.com, all you legal eagles on my f-list, and tell me what you think. If a truck-stop chain airs TV shows in its establishments and runs commercials it sells to advertisers seeking to target truckers over the ones sold by networks and cable channels to their advertisers, is this actually copyright infringement? And if so, would this extend to viewers at home skipping ads using their VCR or TiVo? Or Websurfers using adblockers in their browsers? The possibilities for litigation positively boggle the mind.

Comments

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

It seems to me that selling their own ads (either in place of or in addition to the ones bundled with the programming) could be considered unauthorized commercial use of the programming. (Insert cleverly-worded IANAL disclaimer here)