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

[Greg Schmitz]

Nice to "see" you Ryuji, it's been a while!  I think it is possible to 
purchase a license:

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/M4V/Pages/AgreementExpress.aspx .  
Also the article notes that, " MPEG-LA extended their "free internet 
broadcasting AVC license" until 2015."

FWIW the video functions on those cameras get a lot of use, at least 
from photojournalists that work for news outlets with webpages.  There 
is also a strong market for add on devices (like follow focus and matte 
boxes) because the cameras are being used by  a fair number of low 
budget independents.

--greg

On 5/6/10 4:16 PM, Ryuji Suzuki wrote:
> 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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