Public Fair Use TV Shows Discovery Service
1.e1.skimo.tv is a Non-Commercial TV Shows Discovery Service, created for the Public good, by Skimo TV Inc., using Skimo TV's Skimo Engine automatically and is governed by the Fair Use Doctrine.
a. Non-Commercial: The website e1.skimo.tv is totally free to use, without any direct monetization vehicles such as ads and deferred monetization vehicle such as the freemium model, to commerialize the e1.skimo.tv service. In fact, no login is ever needed to use the website e1.skimo.tv
b. Public Good: TV Show Consumers can visit e1.skimo.tv to watch the Skimo, which is a 3-minute automatic summary, of any TV Show, without paying any money.
c. Fair Use:
i. Transformative Use: The very first episode of any given TV Show is automatically
analyzed by the Skimo Engine, without any human intervention and important points
of interest are identified and a 3-minute summary is created at the end. This will
help consumers, discover TV Shows, very easily, without any friction.
ii. Nature of the Copyrighted Work: The content available in the e1.skimo.tv website
are all copyrighted published TV Shows.
iii. Amount and Substantiality of the portion taken: Each Skimo is 3-minutes in length.
A Skimo is created for a TV Show of length < 35 minutes and two Skimos are created for
TV Shows > 70 minutes and 3 Skimos are created for TV Shows, which are 105 minutes in
length. So, one could see that there is only a fraction of the Video, of the original
work.
iv. Effect of the Use upon the Potential Market: e1.skimo.tv directly contributes
to the discovery of TV Shows, thereby potentially increasing the revenues obtained
from a TV Show.