-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Aldi und Lidl wegen MPEG-Patentverletzungen verklagt
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Aldi-und-Lidl-wegen-MPEG-Patentverletzungen-verklagt-957555.html
Dangers from software patents in Europe
,----[ Quote ]
| This is a presentation I made at an open
| source conference in Greece, 13 March 2010,
| at TEI of Piraeus.
|
| Getting involved with software patents seems
| boring, and, unfortunately, it is, at least
| for me. I'm a computer professional and I
| like writing code. I'm a Python/Django fan,
| and I'm involved in a couple of free software
| projects. One of them is a state project (and
| it's free because I took the opportunity to
| move it towards the right direction when I
| saw that the right people were in the right
| positions). I don't like politics and legal
| issues much. However, I do occasionally mess
| around with copyrights and patents; not
| because I like it, but because I like being
| free, and it is a price I pay to defend my
| freedom.
|
| [...]
|
| I'm in Greece, I create a new invention, and
| I patent it at the Greek Industrial Property
| Organisation. What happens in other
| countries? Could someone from Italy copy my
| invention? The answer is they can, because
| the Greek patent is only valid in Greece. In
| order to solve this problem, many European
| countries signed the European Patent
| Convention (EPC) in 1973. Under the EPC, the
| European Patent Office (EPO) was born. If you
| are granted a patent by the EPO, then it is
| practically valid in all countries that have
| signed the EPC.
|
| Note that the EPC is not a European Union
| treaty, but a treaty of the 36 countries that
| have signed it. The EPO is not an EU
| institution, but an international institution
| of the 36 countries that have signed the EPC.
`----
http://itia.ntua.gr/antonis/political/software-patents-in-europe
Recent:
MPEG LA Extends H.264 Royalty-Free Period
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/1528242/MPEG-LA-Extends-H264-Royalty-Free-Period
H.264 for Internet video to be royalty free till 2016
,----[ Quote ]
| The move will allow internet broadcasters,
| including YouTube and Vimeo, to continue
| providing H.264 encoded content.
`----
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/H-264-for-Internet-video-to-be-royalty-free-till-2016-921828.html
No, you canât do that with H.264
,----[ Quote ]
| A lot of commercial software comes with
| H.264 encoders and decoders, and some
| computers arrive with this software
| preinstalled. This leads a lot of people to
| believe that they can legally view and
| create H.264 videos for whatever purpose
| they like. Unfortunately for them, it ainât
| so.
`----
http://bemasc.net/wordpress/2010/02/02/no-you-cant-do-that-with-h264/
MPlayer Now Supports Most HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Codecs
,----[ Quote ]
| This news is coming a few days late
| (MPlayer's web-site lacks any RSS or
| syndication support), but the latest
| MPlayer code in their SVN trunk now
| supports most HD-DVD and Blu-ray codecs.
| Earlier this year we talked about possible
| Blu-ray support for FFmpeg and developers
| becoming more interested after we
| interviewed the FFmpeg developers and there
| ended up being an outpouring of support by
| our readers offering up Blu-ray drives and
| other forms of help.
`----
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzcwMQ
FFmpeg Gains VDPAU MPEG-4 ASP Acceleration
,----[ Quote ]
| What we were in the process of writing
| about when we discovered MPlayer's support
| for most Blu-ray and HD-DVD codecs was that
| there is now support for MPEG-4 ASP
| decoding with VDPAU (NVIDIA's Video Decode
| and Presentation API for Unix) in the
| mainline FFmpeg tree.
`----
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzcwMg
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAkujRUIACgkQU4xAY3RXLo7J5ACgjA0ML7RhH6o48K/y2XI/u3AF
bWgAnAtrpbzV7W1lPNHlMBViHwyVlLr4
=2mK2
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
|
|
