blog/data/2012-04-26-video-htc-onex.txt

   1 Title: HTC One X - Your video?  What do you mean?
   2 Tags: english, video, standard, multimedia, web, personvern, digistan, h264
   3 Date: 2012-04-26 13:20
   4
   5 <p>In <a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article243690.ece">an
   6 article today</a> published by Computerworld Norway, the photographer
   7 <a href="http://www.urke.com/eirik/">Eirik Helland Urke</a> reports
   8 that the video editor application included with
   9 <a href="http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one-x/#specs">HTC One
  10 X</a> have some quite surprising terms of use.  The article is mostly
  11 based on the twitter message from mister Urke, stating:
  12
  13 <p><blockquote>
  14 "<a href="http://twitter.com/urke/status/194062269724897280">Drøy
  15 brukeravtale: HTC kan bruke MINE redigerte videoer kommersielt. Selv
  16 kan jeg KUN bruke dem privat.</a>"
  17 </blockquote></p>
  18
  19 <p>I quickly translated it to this English message:</p>
  20
  21 <p><blockquote>
  22 "Arrogant user agreement: HTC can use MY edited videos
  23 commercially.  Although I can ONLY use them privately."
  24 </blockquote></p>
  25
  26 <p>I've been unable to find the text of the license term myself, but
  27 suspect it is a variation of the MPEG-LA terms I
  28 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html">discovered
  29 with my Canon IXUS 130</a>.  The HTC One X specification specifies that
  30 the recording format of the phone is .amr for audio and .mp3 for
  31 video.  AMR is
  32 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate_audio_codec#Licensing_and_patent_issues">Adaptive
  33 Multi-Rate audio codec</a> with patents which according to the
  34 Wikipedia article require an license agreement with
  35 <a href="http://www.voiceage.com/">VoiceAge</a>.  MP4 is
  36 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Patent_licensing">MPEG4 with
  37 H.264</a>, which according to Wikipedia require a licence agreement
  38 with <a href="http://www.mpegla.com/">MPEG-LA</a>.</p>
  39
  40 <p>I know why I prefer
  41 <a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">free and open
  42 standards</a> also for video.</p>