- From: Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <justivo@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:21:31 +0100
According to Wikipedia, "AT&T is trying to sue companies such as Apple Inc. over alleged MPEG-4 patent infringement.[1][2][3]" I would be fascinated to see a statement from Apple, Inc. regarding this. It's also quite interesting that different portions of MPEG-4, including different sections of video and audio are licensed separately, so what this means is that any vendor willing to support MPEG-4 for <video> and <audio> has to locate every patent holder and pay them. Oh, and will you look at this, Apple, Inc. holds one the patents! US 6,134,243 [4]. So Apple gets money for every single license sold. How nice. They are attempting to lock vendors into MPEG-4 and get money from licenses in the process. Apple, Inc. is no better than Microsoft. [1] http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/atandt-claims-mpeg-4-patent-infringement-wants-apple-to-pay-up/ [2] http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29679 [3] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1923218,00.asp [4] http://www.mpegla.com/m4s/m4s-att1.pdf
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