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Mozilla and Opera call for Google open codec in HTML5 spec
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| One week after Google open sourced its
| $124.6m VP8 video codec, Mozilla and Opera
| have called for its inclusion in the still-
| gestating HTML5 specification.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/28/mozilla_and_opera_want_vp8_in_html5/
Google's New Open Source Video Standard May Never Be Free
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| Google has the resources to fight any
| industry consortium in court, and it might
| just get the chance, as the company has
| declared that it will make all of YouTube
| available in VP8. But, as John Paczkowski
| pointed out, unless it's ready to indemnify
| everyone else who uses the standard against
| future licensing or legal fees, its claim
| that VP8 is not only open source but free
| to use may prove meaningless.
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http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/25239/
MPEG LA Shrugs Off Antitrust Allegations
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| But Nero, represented by Winston & Strawn,
| alleges that MPEG LA has abused its
| monopoly power. Nero claims that MPEG LA
| has not lived up to the commitments it made
| to the Department of Justice when it was
| previously investigated by antitrust
| enforcers. (The DOJ issued a letter to MPEG
| LA on June 26, 1997, stating that it was
| "not presently inclined to initiate
| antitrust enforcement action" over the
| licensing arrangement.)
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http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202458503025&MPEG_LA_Shrugs_Off_Antitrust_Allegations
The royalty-free HTML5 video of WebM â possible patent problems
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| VC-1, used in HD DVD, was more different
| from H.264 than is VP8 and could not escape
| the problems of software patents.
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http://www.htlounge.net/art/12313/the-royalty-free-html5-video-of-webm-%E2%80%93-possible-patent-problems.html
Implications of Googleâs WebM license on open source selection
http://saviorodrigues.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/implications-of-googles-webm-license-on-open-source-selection/
Google's WebM license could undermine the meaning of 'open source'
http://infoworld.com/d/open-source/googles-webm-license-could-undermine-the-meaning-open-source-308
Google demands more openness from the Open Source Initiative
http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2010/05/27/google-demands-more-openness-from-the-open-source-initiative/
http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:1012:201005:dphgapeaeaahenjiboco
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| From: Chris DiBona <cdibona@xxxxxxxxx>
| Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 09:42:16 -0700
| Wed, 26 May 2010 09:42:16 -0700
|
| Please hold off on submitting this while we
| determine certain compatibility
| issues internally at google. We'll engage
| with osi in a couple of weeks,
| likely as not. I would also point out that
| we're uncomfortable with make
| license proliferation worse and in the
| event we do submit it, we will want a
| couple of changes to how OSI does licenses.
|
| 1) We will likely want a label explicitly
| deterring the use of the license.
| 2) We will want the bod list archives open
| for any discussions of webm. We
| are not comfortable with OSI being closed.
|
| This might sound strident, but I think that
| OSI needs to be more open about
| its workings to retain credibility in the
| space.
|
| Chris
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Google WebM Calls "Open Source" Into Question
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| An anonymous reader adds: "It turns out
| that libvpx, Google's VP8 library, isn't
| compatible with the GPLv2. Google is
| apparently aware of the problem and working
| on a solution.
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http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/05/28/2014200/Google-WebM-Calls-Open-Source-Into-Question
Turf Wars and Standards
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| Googleâs VP8 FLOSS video code and WebM file
| format are brewing a bit of a turf war and
| the old guard is circling the wagons around
| H264. There is an idea to add VP8 and WebM
| to HTML5. That would ensure that everyone
| with any browser or OS could use HTML5
| properly but the old guard wants to make
| money from HTML5 by holding patents and
| charging licence fees to use a video codec.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/05/28/turf-wars-and-standards/
The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Enemy Or Why VP8 Is Important Even If It Came From Google
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| This does not make Google our friend.
| Google didnât do this for the consumer.
| Google did this for Google. The largest
| user of Flash video is this small site
| called YouTube, which curiously enough is
| owned by Google. That Googleâs actions will
| do the consumers good is a byproduct of
| Google trying to make money. Google doesnât
| really care about the consumer, it only
| cares about Google.
|
| Thereâs been a lot of articles about VP8,
| from a variety of publishers, which can be
| found here, here, here, etc. Some of the
| most important ones were written by Dr. Roy
| at Techrights, who has my utmost thanks for
| all the research time he saved me.
|
| But everyone seems to be missing something.
| What if VP8 becomes the de facto standard?
| Remember that VP8 is an open standard.
| Totally open. This means that adding DRM to
| it will be difficult, if not impossible. So
| VP8 kills off Windows Media Video (WMV) and
| Quicktime as a video standards, just like
| MP3 killed off Windows Media Audio (WMA)
| and Quicktime as audio standards. Remember
| that one of the reasons that Microsoft and
| Apple fought MP3 was because MP3 wasnât
| compatible with DRM, and the Frauhoffer
| Institute controlled the specification. Now
| we have the same situation with VP8, and we
| already know that Steve Jobs is panicking.
| You have to ask yourself whyâ
|
| Simple â VP8 will destroy the Digital
| Millennium Copyright Act, ACTA, the new
| Canadian Copyright Act, the WIPO copyright
| treaties, and every other law which
| attempts to protect DRM. The ripping noise
| you hear is Hollywood tearing itâs hair out
| in clumps.
|
| And now you know why the patent trolls at
| MPEG.LA are trying to sidetrack VP8
| adoption. Which still doesnât make Google
| our friend. Remember that.
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http://madhatter.ca/2010/05/28/the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-enemy-or-why-vp8-is-important-even-if-it-came-from-google/
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