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  12        <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  20   <div class="title">Terms of use for video produced by a Canon IXUS 130 digital camera</div>
  21   <div class="date">2010-09-09 23:55</div>
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  23 <p>A few days ago I had the mixed pleasure of bying a new digital
  24 camera, a Canon IXUS 130.  It was instructive and very disturbing to
  25 be able to verify that also this camera producer have the nerve to
  26 specify how I can or can not use the videos produced with the camera.
  27 Even thought I was aware of the issue, the options with new cameras
  28 are limited and I ended up bying the camera anyway.  What is the
  29 problem, you might ask?  It is software patents, MPEG-4, H.264 and the
  30 MPEG-LA that is the problem, and our right to record our experiences
  31 without asking for permissions that is at risk.
  32
  33 <p>On page 27 of the Danish instruction manual, this section is
  34 written:</p>
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  36 <blockquote>
  37 <p>This product is licensed under AT&T patents for the MPEG-4 standard
  38 and may be used for encoding MPEG-4 compliant video and/or decoding
  39 MPEG-4 compliant video that was encoded only (1) for a personal and
  40 non-commercial purpose or (2) by a video provider licensed under the
  41 AT&T patents to provide MPEG-4 compliant video.</p>
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  43 <p>No license is granted or implied for any other use for MPEG-4
  44 standard.</p>
  45 </blockquote>
  46
  47 <p>In short, the camera producer have chosen to use technology
  48 (MPEG-4/H.264) that is only provided if I used it for personal and
  49 non-commercial purposes, or ask for permission from the organisations
  50 holding the knowledge monopoly (patent) for technology used.</p>
  51
  52 <p>This issue has been brewing for a while, and I recommend you to
  53 read
  54 "<a href="http://www.osnews.com/story/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Video_Art_and_Culture_is_Threatened_by_the_MPEG-LA">Why
  55 Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the
  56 MPEG-LA</a>" by Eugenia Loli-Queru and
  57 "<a href="http://webmink.com/2010/09/03/h-264-and-foss/">H.264 Is Not
  58 The Sort Of Free That Matters</a>" by Simon Phipps to learn more about
  59 the issue.  The solution is to support the
  60 <a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">free and
  61 open standards</a> for video, like <a href="http://www.theora.org/">Ogg
  62 Theora</a>, and avoid MPEG-4 and H.264 if you can.</p>
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