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  13      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  21       <div class="title">HTC One X - Your video?  What do you mean?</div>
  22       <div class="date">26th April 2012</div>
  23       <div class="body"><p>In <a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article243690.ece">an
  24 article today</a> published by Computerworld Norway, the photographer
  25 <a href="http://www.urke.com/eirik/">Eirik Helland Urke</a> reports
  26 that the video editor application included with
  27 <a href="http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one-x/#specs">HTC One
  28 X</a> have some quite surprising terms of use.  The article is mostly
  29 based on the twitter message from mister Urke, stating:
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  31 <p><blockquote>
  32 "<a href="http://twitter.com/urke/status/194062269724897280">Drøy
  33 brukeravtale: HTC kan bruke MINE redigerte videoer kommersielt. Selv
  34 kan jeg KUN bruke dem privat.</a>"
  35 </blockquote></p>
  36
  37 <p>I quickly translated it to this English message:</p>
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  39 <p><blockquote>
  40 "Arrogant user agreement: HTC can use MY edited videos
  41 commercially.  Although I can ONLY use them privately."
  42 </blockquote></p>
  43
  44 <p>I've been unable to find the text of the license term myself, but
  45 suspect it is a variation of the MPEG-LA terms I
  46 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html">discovered
  47 with my Canon IXUS 130</a>.  The HTC One X specification specifies that
  48 the recording format of the phone is .amr for audio and .mp3 for
  49 video.  AMR is
  50 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate_audio_codec#Licensing_and_patent_issues">Adaptive
  51 Multi-Rate audio codec</a> with patents which according to the
  52 Wikipedia article require an license agreement with
  53 <a href="http://www.voiceage.com/">VoiceAge</a>.  MP4 is
  54 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Patent_licensing">MPEG4 with
  55 H.264</a>, which according to Wikipedia require a licence agreement
  56 with <a href="http://www.mpegla.com/">MPEG-LA</a>.</p>
  57
  58 <p>I know why I prefer
  59 <a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">free and open
  60 standards</a> also for video.</p>
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  63       <div class="tags">Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/digistan">digistan</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.</div>
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