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

[Ryuji Suzuki]

My question is whether there is a way to buy commercial
license to shoot video using 7D or 5DII?

I think most reasonable professionals wouldn't buy those
cameras for the video functions, but I also know some wedding
photogs who also offer some video coverage, which is
definitely a commercial use... but I haven't heard of ways to
pay money to buy a professional license. If they don't have
that, how do they expect to enforce the contract they wrote?

--
Ryuji Suzuki
"Don't play what's there, play what's not there." (Miles Davis)

From: Greg Schmitz <gws1 at columbia.edu>
Subject: [alt-photo] For those of you with the latest wiz-bang Canon digital camera
Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 00:31:45 -0800

> 
> 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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