Re: [rtcweb] A different perspective on the video codec MTI discussion

"Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> Tue, 26 March 2013 04:52 UTC

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On 2013/03/15 3:03, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:

> If you read the documentation that comes with your, for example, AVCHD
> camcorder, you'll see that the licensee (the hardware manufacturer) can
> give to their users is a private, non-commericial license to the usage
> of the encoded media produced by it.  Windows users, as well, are
> granted a license via Microsoft to the usage of the decoder shipped with
> the OS for the same limited usages.  Commercial usages beyond this would
> seem to require an additional license (e.g., a paid performance where an
> H.264 video is played on a Windows machine, perhaps?).
>
> I don't know what to say about the other issues you've raised.  IANAL
> and such. :)  Such questions may be directed to MPEG-LA.

I'm not a lawyer either, never was, and never plan to be. The above is 
probably an appropriate explanation of the license as intended by the 
licencers.

But I'm wondering whether such a licence would actually hold tight when 
considering patent exhaustion (first sale). Under patent exhaustion, it 
seems impossible to e.g. sell patented bottle openers but restrict their 
use to home use, in exclusion to commercial use (e.g. in a restaurant or 
bar). What is it that would allow such distinctions for cameras but not 
for bottle openers and the like? Or is it just that nobody yet has 
brought a case before a court?

Just wondering aloud.

Regards,   Martin.