beebPlayer

On the evening of Friday 14 May 2010, I received a PDF from the BBC. Eighteen pages of screenshots, trademark registrations, and a demand: remove beebPlayer from Android Market. What I had started as a Python script had become an Android app installed on over 50,000 phones, but the BBC&rsquo;s lawyers were somewhat less impressed. beebPlayer was born from scratching an itch. Three years earlier,…