X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/089b5a1adadf828742977a83eb3701e3531fc0df..9d9e9400ee23ddb90978db8e371b096a2215fd68:/blog/data/2012-04-26-video-htc-onex.txt diff --git a/blog/data/2012-04-26-video-htc-onex.txt b/blog/data/2012-04-26-video-htc-onex.txt index b663c76de3..2417e50f52 100644 --- a/blog/data/2012-04-26-video-htc-onex.txt +++ b/blog/data/2012-04-26-video-htc-onex.txt @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ Title: HTC One X - Your video? What do you mean? Tags: english, video, standard, multimedia, web, personvern, digistan -Date: 2012-04-26 13:00 +Date: 2012-04-26 13:20

In an article today published by Computerworld Norway, the photographer -Eirik Helland -Urke reports that the video editor application included with +Eirik Helland Urke reports +that the video editor application included with HTC One X have some quite surprising terms of use. The article is mostly based on the twitter message from mister Urke, stating: @@ -13,14 +13,14 @@ based on the twitter message from mister Urke, stating:

"Drøy brukeravtale: HTC kan bruke MINE redigerte videoer kommersielt. Selv -kan jeg KUN bruke dem privat" +kan jeg KUN bruke dem privat."

I quickly translated it to this English message:

-"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."

I've been unable to find the text of the license term myself, but @@ -33,10 +33,10 @@ video. AMR is Multi-Rate audio codec with patents which according to the Wikipedia article require an license agreement with VoiceAge. MP4 is -MPEG4 with +MPEG4 with H.264, which according to Wikipedia require a licence agreement with MPEG-LA.

I know why I prefer -free and open standards also for video.