A licence to pay in the future? Now it is for the visuals...

[alternus]

Heard about this issue from a friend about the use of H.264 footage for commercial purposes,
http://www.streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/h264-royalties-what-you-need-to-know.html

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000101-264.html

When I read pg 260 of my Canon 7D manual, I see a section on Mpeg-Licensing, which goes,
"This product is licensed under AT&T patents for the MPEG-4 standard and may be used for encoding MPEG-4 compliant video and/or decoding MPEG-4 compliant video that was encoded only (1) for a personal and non-commercial purpose or (2) by a video provider licensed under the AT&T patents to provide MPEG-4 compliant video. No license is granted or implied for any other use for MPEG-4 standard."

Hmmm... Maybe the video functions of SLRs can only be used to shoot our own children running around the house if I don't want to pay the H.264 royalties? Hope I've interpreted the info wrongly....

 

[jasonjoseph]

its getting pretty ridiculous. but honestly i think this one will be harder to clamp down on then the use of un licensed music. mpeg la is only a lil company in LA whereas recording companies are multinational monopolising organisations. lets not forget BMG owns the rights to the bible.

 

[tengo]

That is why Google launch the open source WebM project consisting of the VP8 video codec and Vorbis audio codec in a Matroska container.

But we don't know if this is going to be successful because of VP8's performance vs H.264 and whether Google will face any potential patent suits over VP8.

http://www.webmproject.org/

 

[engr]

win liao!!! Can close shop if this also comes true!

 

[sundazz]

need to go back to linear editing and print back to tape for delivery liao lah!

 

[jopel]

please do not write to them or call them to clarify, else they will use it as a platform to expedite the implementation. :bsmilie:

 

[samvision]

please do not write to them or call them to clarify, else they will use it as a platform to expedite the implementation. :bsmilie:

sound gd. if not we will have another opening for them to create a license for us.
Thanks for sharing