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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Fwd: [backstage] H.264
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Simon Ward |
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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Fwd: [backstage] H.264 |
Date: |
Thu, 4 Feb 2010 18:03:08 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
> MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will
> continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is free to
> end users (known as Internet Broadcast AVC Video) during the next
That’s a continuation of existing practice (the clue is in the word
“continue”) and “free [of charge] to end users”.
> License term from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2015. Products and
> services other than Internet Broadcast AVC Video continue to be
> royalty-bearing, and royalties to apply during the next term will be
> announced before the end of 2010.
For anything else, including free software for streaming video, should
expect to licence (even if they don’t get pulled up on it).
See the article about it on LWN[1] and the Betanews coverage of this
announcement[2].
[1]: http://lwn.net/Articles/370985/
[2]:
http://www.betanews.com/article/H264-licensing-body-wont-charge-royalties-for-HTML5-other-Web-streams/1265237599
Simon
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