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http://mp3licensing.com/other/index.html They list: Atrac 3, (E)Pac, AAC ..and various patents of theirs they believe that these formats rely on.. then basically say: "We have not yet determined our licensing policy for this format" Vorbis is not mentioned.. Regards, Tom --- &gt...

...e few problems related to patents. Vorbis claims to be patent free. Is there any particular search made for possible patent infringements and corresponding report published? We need to convince our customers sometime about this issue. I have started with patents listed on the website of "www.mp3licensing.com". Some of them are very generic and it appears as if Vorbis code might be infringing upon few of them. They are (with their patent numbers and titles) : 5,384,811: Method for transmitting a TDAC coded audio signal 5,321,729: Method for transmitting a signal using adaptive window functions...

Michael Crawford wrote: > Unlike MP3, one > cannot even distribute the binary of an Open Source player. Even distributing an MP3 software player requires the payment of license fees: http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html Erik -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo ----------------------------------------------------------------- "If I were on life-support, I'd rather have it run by a Gameboy than a Windows box." -- Cliff Wel...

Behold, gtgbr@gmx.net hath decreed: > Dale Ghent wrote: > > Icecast2 is icecast2. I'm talking about it's lack of innovation (ogg > > streaming! woopdefuckingdoo) as well as it's lack of functionality that > > doesnt even near icecast 1.x (yp, acls, metadata, web-based admin). > > Apparently, you haven't tried Icecast2-alpha, yet. So... we have to try an

...ono format where > the music is unrecognizable. You'd still have to pay the royalties. It DOES matter if it's mp3. You have to pay the publisher royalties regardless, but in addition, there's a 2% royalty for webcasting in the mp3 format, with a $2000 annual minnumum. See http://mp3licensing.com/royalty/emd.html for the official info. Ogg Vorbis, wav, and flac are free by design and do not require this additional royalty. HTH, -r --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a messa...

Hi. Is it possible (legally) to stream MP3s on Icecast that have been encoded with LAME encoder (http://lame.sourceforge.net/license.txt)? So if a composer writes a track, then saves in MP3 with LAME, and wants to distribute with Icecast server, is it legal? Must he get license for MP3 (http://mp3licensing.com/royalty/emd.html) and pay any royalties for MP3 DISTRIBUTING or STREAMING as it stated on this site? Or it's only if profit is >$100000 (look link)? (assuming he is a individual person) There is an unclear situation with LAME - can users from Russia legally save a track with LAME to MP3...

...resting from the perspective of someone with a collection of > mp3s who wants to stream music. I also answered that before - Vorbis offers significant quality improvements at low bitrates, even if the source is MP3. Apart from that, compare streaming royalties of Vorbis with those on http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/emd.html (in case you're a professional). > What does it do? Where is the feature description? Do I have to run > it to figure out what it is supposed to do? How am I supposed to even > know that icecast2 streams vorbis without searching archives for > arguments like th...

Greetings: I have a streaming Vorbis program on-line now at: http://64.108.112.135:8000/shouter.ogg if anyone would like to test it. Best regards, == Dave Phillips The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm The Linux Soundapps Site at http://sound.condorow.net --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project

...music is unrecognizable. You'd still have to pay the royalties. > > It DOES matter if it's mp3. You have to pay the publisher royalties > regardless, but in addition, there's a 2% royalty for webcasting in the > mp3 format, with a $2000 annual minnumum. > > See http://mp3licensing.com/royalty/emd.html for the official info. > > Ogg Vorbis, wav, and flac are free by design and do not require this > additional royalty. > > HTH, > -r > --- >8 ---- > List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ > icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ &...

...f a composer writes a track, then saves in MP3 with LAME, and > wants to distribute with Icecast server, is it legal? Make sure not to conflate the legal situation of LAME with recording industry / broadcast licensing fees, those are separate things. > Must he get license for MP3 (http://mp3licensing.com/royalty/emd.html) > and pay any royalties for MP3 DISTRIBUTING or STREAMING as it stated > on this site? Or it's only if profit is >$100000 (look link)? > (assuming he is a individual person) I can't possibly speak for them, ask them if you really want to know. Notice, t...

Looks like the mpeg gestapo are frantically at work cracking down on mpeg projects. Several important projects (tsunami mpeg, gogo, faac, etc) were shut down by the jack booted patent nazis. Since FhG, mpegla, etc plan to start charging royalties on everything even remotely mpeg-related very soon, I expect a lot of interest is going to shift to Vorbis. And soon thereafter, I expect FhG to attack

Here in the uk, to get a patent on anything, you have to prove that the patent is not obvious and that there is no prior art. If there is prior art, then a patent cannot be given, this is why people patenting stuff have to keep it a secret until they actually have the patent, otherwise it is considered to have been released into the public domain. Once something is in the public domain, nobody

Thanks for the interest, Michael. I don't use Ogg, so I'm a little wary that standard FLAC would be left out of any Ogg Frog implementation. But I say that mostly out of ignorance. I have noticed that there seem to be two worlds for FLAC, inside Ogg and outside. It's important to be aware of the fact that many hardware devices support the FLAC format directly, without the

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Tom O'Reilly" <TOreilly at mpegla.com> > Date: May 22, 2010 6:31:50 PM CDT > To: "Dave Johnson" <davefilms.us at gmail.com> > Cc: "Info-web" <Info-web at mpegla.com> > Subject: RE: VP8 > > Dear Mr. Johnson, > > Thank you for writing. We appreciate hearing from you and the >

Greetings! I've been asked to set-up an Icecast stream / live webcam for a small club, and I'm worried about what kind of payments the owner would have to make to stream the club's music over the internet. I found this article: <http://www.copyright.gov/carp/webcasting_rates_final.html> but I still don't know what to make of it. Would we have to pay $0.07 per song the DJ

Hi, Up until now, I've been providing narrowband streams at 24kbps MP3. We've reluctantly been using MP3 instead of say Ogg Vorbis due to wider support. But it's getting to the point where low bitrate MP3 doesn't really cut it anymore. With technologies like AACPlus out there in common usage, people have come to expect better and one can hardly blame them. So I thought