Christopher Woods wrote:
Nothing changes - H.264 for Internet Broadcast has been free,
but was due to require a paid license as of this year.
MPEG-LA have extended the free period for 5 years.
(The BBC probably _does_ have a license for the AVC family,
but it wouldn't affect this).
Any idea why the MPEG-LA did this then? Seems to be quite an about-turn
given everyoen was bracing for enforced commercial licensing...
Read what it said again:
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MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will
continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is **free to
end users** (known as Internet Broadcast AVC Video) during the next
License term from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2015.
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(emphasis is my own)
I'm fairly uncomfortable about this because it's quite unclear what the
situation is with regards to other uses of the codec.
I'd prefer to feel safer & use theora but :-/
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