[alt-photo] Re: For those of you with the latest wiz-bang Canon digital camera

[Jeremy Moore]

Draconian EULA's have been tossed out in court so there is now precedent.
Still a scary world of fine print we live in now.

On May 3, 2010 3:31 AM, "Greg Schmitz" <gws1 at columbia.edu> wrote:


Here's an interesting little something for those of you that like to shoot
video with your cameras but hate reading the manual:

"Why Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA,
by Eugenia Loli-Queru

We've all heard how the h.264 is rolled over on patents and royalties. Even
with these facts, I kept supporting the best-performing "delivery" codec in
the market, which is h.264. "Let the best win", I kept thinking. But it
wasn't until very recently when I was made aware that the problem is way
deeper. No, my friends. It's not just a matter of just "picking Theora" to
export a video to Youtube and be clear of any litigation. MPEG-LA's trick
runs way deeper! The [street-smart] people at MPEG-LA have made sure that
from the moment we use a camera or camcorder to shoot an mpeg2 (e.g. HDV
cams) or h.264 video (e.g. digicams, HD dSLRs, AVCHD cams), we owe them
royalties, even if the final video distributed was not encoded using their
codecs! Let me show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

...ALL modern video cameras and camcorders that shoot in h.264 or mpeg2,
come with a license agreement that says that you can only use that camera to
shoot video for "personal use and non-commercial" purposes (go on, read your
manuals)."

http://www.osnews.com/story/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Video_Art_and_Culture_is_Threatened_by_the_MPEG-LA<
http://www.osnews.com/story/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Video_Art_and_Culture_is_Threatened_by_the_MPEG-LA
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