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 Title: HTC One X - Your video?  What do you mean?
-Tags: english, video, standard, multimedia, web, personvern
-Date: 2012-04-26 13:00
+Tags: english, video, standard, multimedia, web, personvern, digistan, h264
+Date: 2012-04-26 13:20
 
-<p>In <ahref="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article243690.ece">an
-article today</a> on Computerworld Norway, the photographer Eirik
-Helland Urke reports that the video editor included on
-<ahref="http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one-x/#specs">HTC One
+<p>In <a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article243690.ece">an
+article today</a> published by Computerworld Norway, the photographer
+<a href="http://www.urke.com/eirik/">Eirik Helland Urke</a> reports
+that the video editor application included with
+<a href="http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one-x/#specs">HTC One
 X</a> have some quite surprising terms of use.  The article is mostly
 based on the twitter message from mister Urke, stating:
 
 <p><blockquote>
-"<ahref="http://twitter.com/urke/status/194062269724897280">Drøy
+"<a href="http://twitter.com/urke/status/194062269724897280">Drøy
 brukeravtale: HTC kan bruke MINE redigerte videoer kommersielt. Selv
-kan jeg KUN bruke dem privat</a>"
+kan jeg KUN bruke dem privat.</a>"
 </blockquote></p>
 
 <p>I quickly translated it to this English message:</p>
 
 <p><blockquote>
-"Arrogant user agreement: HTC can use MINE edited videos commercially.
-I can ONLY use them in private."
+"Arrogant user agreement: HTC can use MY edited videos
+commercially.  Although I can ONLY use them privately."
 </blockquote></p>
 
 <p>I've been unable to find the text of the license term myself, but
 suspect it is a variation of the MPEG-LA terms I
-<ahref="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html">discovered
-with Canon IXUS 130</a>.  The HTC One X specification specifies that
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html">discovered
+with my Canon IXUS 130</a>.  The HTC One X specification specifies that
 the recording format of the phone is .amr for audio and .mp3 for
 video.  AMR is
-<ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate_audio_codec#Licensing_and_patent_issues">Adaptive
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate_audio_codec#Licensing_and_patent_issues">Adaptive
 Multi-Rate audio codec</a> with patents which according to the
 Wikipedia article require an license agreement with
-<ahref="http://www.voiceage.com/">VoiceAge</a>.  MP4 is
-<ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC">MPEG4 with
+<a href="http://www.voiceage.com/">VoiceAge</a>.  MP4 is
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Patent_licensing">MPEG4 with
 H.264</a>, which according to Wikipedia require a licence agreement
-with <ahref="http://www.mpegla.com/">MPEG-LA</a>.</p>
+with <a href="http://www.mpegla.com/">MPEG-LA</a>.</p>
+
+<p>I know why I prefer
+<a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">free and open
+standards</a> also for video.</p>