I føljetongen om H.264
-forlot
-jeg leserne i undring om hvor pakken fra MPEG-LA tok veien, og om
-hvilke selskaper i Norge som har avtale med MPEG-LA. Da Ryan hos
-MPEG-LA dro på ferie sendte jeg min melding videre til hans kollega,
-og dagen etter fikk jeg følgende svar derfra:
-
-
-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:32:34 +0000
-
From: Sidney Wolf <SWolf (at) mpegla.com>
-
To: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere (at) hungry.com>
-
Cc: Ryan Rodriguez <RRodriguez (at) mpegla.com>
-
Subject: RE: Do NRK have a license agreement with MPEG-LA?
-
-Dear Mr. Reinholdtsen,
-
-Thank you for your message. As you know, Ryan is currently our of the
-office, so it will be my pleasure to assist you.
-
-Per your request, attached please find an electronic copy of the
-AVC Patent Portfolio License. Please note that the electronic copy of
-the License is provided as a convenience and for informational
-purposes only. When concluding the Licenses, only the hard copies
-provided by MPEG LA may be used.
-
-To your question, MPEG LA lists our Licensees on our website
-according to each program. The lists are in alphabetical order, so it
-is very easy to search.
-
-I hope that this was helpful. If we can be of additional
-assistance, please let me know.
-
-Kind regards,
-
-Sidney A. Wolf
-
Manager, Global Licensing
-
MPEG LA
-
-
-
Selv om et epostvedlegg er nyttig for mottakeren, så håpet jeg å få
-et dokument jeg kunne dele med alle leserne av bloggen min, og ikke et
-som må deles på individuell basis. Opphavsretten krever godkjenning
-fra rettighetsinnehaver før en kan gjøre slikt, så dermed fulgte jeg
-opp med et spørsmål om dette var greit.
-
-
-Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 20:25:06 +0200
-
From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere (at) hungry.com>
-
To: Sidney Wolf <SWolf (at) mpegla.com>
-
Cc: Ryan Rodriguez <RRodriguez (at) mpegla.com>
-
Subject: Re: Do NRK have a license agreement with MPEG-LA?
-
-Thank you for your reply.
-
-[Sidney Wolf]
-
> Per your request, attached please find an electronic copy of the AVC
-
> Patent Portfolio License. Please note that the electronic copy of
-
> the License is provided as a convenience and for informational
-
> purposes only. When concluding the Licenses, only the hard copies
-
> provided by MPEG LA may be used.
-
-This is useful for me to learn, but the reason I asked for the
-Internet address of the licensing document was to ensure I could
-publish a link to it when I discuss the topic of H.264 licensing here
-in Norway, and allow others to verify my observations. I can not do
-the same with an email attachment. Thus I would like to ask you if it
-is OK with MPEG LA that I publish this document on the Internet for
-others to read?
-
-> To your question, MPEG LA lists our Licensees on our website
-
> according to each program. The lists are in alphabetical order, so
-
> it is very easy to search.
-
-I am afraid this do not help me locate Norwegian companies in the
-list of Licensees. I do not know the name of all companies and
-organisations in Norway, and thus do not know how to locate the
-Norwegian ones on that list.
-
-> I hope that this was helpful. If we can be of additional assistance,
-
> please let me know.
-
-Absoutely helpful to learn more about how MPEG LA handle licensing.
-
---
-
Happy hacking
-
Petter Reinholdtsen
-
-
-
Jeg håpet også at det skulle være mulig å få vite hvilke av de
-mange hundre som har avtale med MPEG-LA om bruk av H.264 som holdt til
-i Norge. Begge mine håp falt i grus med svaret fra MPEG-LA.
-
-
-Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 17:42:39 +0000
-
From: Sidney Wolf <SWolf (at) mpegla.com>
-
To: 'Petter Reinholdtsen' <pere (at) hungry.com>
-
Cc: Ryan Rodriguez <RRodriguez (at) mpegla.com>
-
Subject: RE: Do NRK have a license agreement with MPEG-LA?
-
-Dear Mr. Reinholdtsen,
-
-Thank you for your reply.
-
-We appreciate the additional explanation you have provided and for
-asking our permission to publish the electronic copy of the License in
-advance of doing so. Typically, MPEG LA prefers to distribute the
-electronic copies of our Licenses to interested parties. Therefore,
-please feel free to send interested parties to the AVC portion of our
-website, http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Intro.aspx for
-their further reference.
-
-As previously mentioned, MPEG LA maintains a list of Licensees in good
-standing on our website according to each program. Due to the large
-volume of Licensees, it would be administratively impractical to
-provide this level of detail to interested parties. Therefore, I am
-afraid we are not in a position to assist you with your request.
-
-Kind regards,
-
-Sidney A. Wolf
-
Manager, Global Licensing
-
MPEG LA
-
-
-
Men takket være epostvedlegget kunne jeg søke på Google etter
-setningen "WHEREAS, a video standard commonly referred to as AVC has
-been defined and is referred to in this Agreement as the âAVC
-Standardâ (as more fully defined herein below)" som finnes i avtalen,
-og lokalisere en kopi fra 2007 av
-lisensavtalen
-mellom MPEG-LA og DivX, Inc., slik at mine lesere kan se hvordan
-avtalen så ut da. Jeg har ikke sammenlignet tekstene for å se om noe
-har endret seg siden den tid, men satser på at teksten er representativ.
-
-
Jeg aner fortsatt ikke hvor FedEx tok veien med pakken fra
-MPEG-LA.
-
-
Update 2012-07-06: Jeg er visst ikke den første som forsøker å få
-klarhet i problemstillinger rundt H.264, og kom nettopp over en veldig
-interessant bloggpost fra 2010 hos LibreVideo med tittelen
-"MPEG-LA
-answers some questions about AVC/H.264 licensing. Anbefales!
-
