On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 8:57 PM, tom_a_sparks <tom_a_spa...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > > http://www.osnews.com/story/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Video_Art_and_Culture_is_Threatened_by_the_MPEG-LA > > it looking more and more like GIF/LZW/Unisys, but it called > Microsoft/apple/MPEG-LA/etc
My Sanyo Xacti HD-1010 has no such clause in the manual :-D Reminds me of the 802.11 WiFi standard. Everyone started using it willy-nilly and it became a massive industry standard without anyone realising (or caring) that the Australian CSIRO group had a patent on it. The result - the CSIRO eventually won last year and now every company who sells a WiFi product now has to pay the CSIRO royalties. Dave.