{"id":642,"date":"2009-01-12T11:53:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T11:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=642"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:27:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:27:03","slug":"tv-licence-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/642","title":{"rendered":"TV Licence Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It always used to be the case that you needed a licence to watch live TV or to watch recordings made from live TV. e.g. if a friend gave you a tape of a program that they had recorded, then you needed a licence to watch it (unlike hiring a film from a video shop).<\/p>\n<p>This seems to have changed. <a href=\"http:\/\/iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk\/help\/about_iplayer\/tvlicence\">The BBC now says<\/a> that a licence is only required for viewing &#8220;at the same time (or virtually the same time) as it is being broadcast.&#8221; Catching up via iPlayer is specifically excluded and by clear and unquestionable implication (in my opinion), also in the case I outlined above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It always used to be the case that you needed a licence to watch live TV or to watch recordings made from live TV. e.g. if a friend gave you a tape of a program that they had recorded, then you needed a licence to watch it (unlike hiring a film from a video shop). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}