I have Sony Acid Pro and Sonar Producer. Each of these required me to purchase a license from the respective companies to work with MP3 files. I asked Sony and Cakewalk about claims that I would need an additional license to actually distribute these files (as claimed by an audio technical group I'm a member of). Both Sony and Cakewalk told me to contact Thompson.
Sorry I hit send to accidentally! <g>
Anyway Thompson informed me that yes I would need to purchase a separate license to distribute in this format. I then asked, as a software developer, if that meant I could read and write to and from an MP3 file in my own software. They stated that I could not and would need a separate license to do that. I asked directly what that license allowed and they told me it included the right to write the audio data, tags and to read both back. Like you I was surprised by this. I enquired further about their ownership of that tags (as I had found the same information as you) and they told me that as I am writing and reading from their format *anything* not pertaining to performance rights (that the label or artist owns) is their property as specified by their patent. As I said in my first post they are total creeps. The entire series of emails was very curt and at times totally condescending.
Scott
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