On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote: > If New Zealand has already granted patents applicable in New Zealand, it > cannot rule them out unilaterally, without compensating the patent holder > > But now there may be problems for media producers that sell products in New > Zealand : MPEG products will not be sellable there because they will have to > be reencoded specifically for New Zealand. But large online media
MPEG LA will already have a patent thicket established in NZ. Once those patents expire, an MPEG License will no longer be required to encode or decode those formats. If or when the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) is ratified, the NZ Government might be forced to overturn their ban on software patents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economic_Partnership Did you know that NZ has already made the transition to Digital TV using DVB-T with H.264, leapfrogging over the older MPEG2 encoding format. Bill _______________________________________________ Sign-up for our weekly newsletter: http://opensource.com/email-newsletter Osdc-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/osdc-list
