- From: Jerason Banes <jbanes@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:38:48 -0600
If by "Corporate Blessed", you mean codecs like H.264, there's a very simple answer to that. Nokia and Apple pay licensing fees to a company called MPEG LA. MPEG LA indemnifies Nokia and Apple from patent lawsuits over the use of MPEG-related codecs. Should anyone come forward with a new patent, the MPEG LA will litigate the matter and/or come to an agreement with the patent holder to license the patent on behalf of their member companies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264#Patent_licensing Thanks, Jerason Banes On Dec 12, 2007 7:15 AM, Joseph Daniel Zukiger < joseph_daniel_zukiger at yahoo.com> wrote: > What guarantees do Apple, Nokia, et. al. offer that > their corporate-blessed containers/formats/codecs are > free from threat for (ergo) the rest of us? Are they > willing to make binding agreements to go to bat for > _us_ in court? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20071212/d034f8f7/attachment.htm>
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