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Hi all, The vorbis codec is patent and royalty-free, but for mp3 one should in principle pay royalties to Fraunhofer institute ($0.05 or so ?) for each song recorded. But what about .ogg files that are made out of .mp3 files? Does the royalty then somehow inherit to the .ogg file? Just a thought... Roland -- --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: htt...

Hi, Is there any Royalty one needs to pay when using the inbuilt exisimg asterisk on hold music or when using any other mp3 from a music album. I think we need to pay for the later, but I am not sure if we need to pay for the inbuilt asterisk(freepbx) on hold music. -- Deepak --------------------------------- Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who

...here is also declared intent to submit the SPIRIT IPMR wideband codec[6]. This Working Group proposal faces stiff opposition from current codec patent holders who benefit from the status quo that allows them to control competition from organizations whose business models cannot support per-channel royalties. Now is a very good time to speak up on this issue. We hope to see you (physically or virtually) in large numbers for the BoF. Xiph.Org will be represented in person at the meeting by Christopher (Monty) Montgomery [Director] and Jean-Marc Valin [CELT Project Lead]. The BoF will be at 13:00 Stockh...

...here is also declared intent to submit the SPIRIT IPMR wideband codec[6]. This Working Group proposal faces stiff opposition from current codec patent holders who benefit from the status quo that allows them to control competition from organizations whose business models cannot support per-channel royalties. Now is a very good time to speak up on this issue. We hope to see you (physically or virtually) in large numbers for the BoF. Xiph.Org will be represented in person at the meeting by Christopher (Monty) Montgomery [Director] and Jean-Marc Valin [CELT Project Lead]. The BoF will be at 13:00 Stockh...

I would like to know if wine developers (well team) receives royalties or support from transgaming and cross over office creators. Because I am disgusted that the Wine creators spent so much time and effort and hard work into their creation with good intension's whilst transgaming and cross over office developers use there system to profit on things that are a ne...

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:52:38PM +0200, Jack Moffitt wrote: > > Does it matter if the stream is mp3 or ogg? > > No. It could be WAV, FLAC, or some 2-bit per sample mono 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...

...der GPL, or GUIs like FreePBX which also come loaded with wonderful features and uses same Asterisk, are they anywhere violating any patent laws? Most of the features work the same way as Nortel, Avaya and other PBX systems. Is there anyone who owns these features and will come one day to claim his royalties? When I deploy an asterisk soultion for a customer, is there any violation of any patent or copyright laws anywhere? Of if I use my own Asterisk server to provide services to some customers, am I violating any patent laws by not paying the royalties to some patent owners? I heard people saying th...

...song per listener, for every song you play. There *was* a deal for an alternative percent of revenue royalty, but the legislation authorizing this had a sunset clause of December 2002. C) Switch your Internet connection to one where servers are allowed, typically business connections. D) Pay royalties for using MP3 technology in your stream, or WMA, AAC, etc. Ogg Vorbis is great here, since there are no royalties to pay. If any music you wish to play is not represented by ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and their overseas performance right organizations (or if you don't want to go with the compulsory...

...=============================== > hey josh, > i talked to [faculty advisor] today and was told we must stop our online > streaming. reasons for this rash decision involve around a new law that > was put in place over the summer saying that stations who broadcast online > have to pay royalties, but the amount to be paid has yet to be specified. First off the DMCA was enacted in 1998. I believe you are also exempt for it if you also broadcast over-the-air. _That_ part might have changed, as certainly the RIAA will be after money from traditional labels. > so until > some mystica...

...======================================================== hey josh, i talked to [faculty advisor] today and was told we must stop our online streaming. reasons for this rash decision involve around a new law that was put in place over the summer saying that stations who broadcast online have to pay royalties, but the amount to be paid has yet to be specified. apparently, a number of college stations have stopped streaming in fear that the royalties will involve a huge amount of money. within grinnell, because grinnell college got in trouble with the FCC and fined 20,000 dollars last time they were her...

Hi everyone, Where can I get a royalty-free copy of the spinner.gif or some other AJAX activity icon? I don''t want to swipe one without asking. Thanks, Jason

...y 23, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Tom O'Reilly wrote: > Dear Mr. Johnson, > > Thank you for your additional comments. > > While I appreciate your sentiment, we are trying to address the > situation as it is, not as we may wish it to be. Although Google has > the right to disclaim royalties for its own technologies, if any, it > can't disclaim them for others without their permission. It is believed > that VP8 is based on technologies owned by many different companies and > not Google alone, and that is the issue we expect to address. > > Thus, even if MPEG LA w...

Hello, I don't have advanced (and worked) on the NHW codec recently.I however compiled the codec with gcc -O3 setting (the binaries are available from my demo page: http://nhwcodec.blogspot.com ) and just with this optimization (no mmx, sse, avx instructions,... ) the NHW codec is 6x faster to encode and 4x faster to decode than WebP.As I state that my codec is royalty-free, fast with more

Fraunhofer and Thomson Multimedia release their new mp3pro codec and new licenseconditions for streaming mp3 : http://www.techreview.com/web/kiang/kiang060701.asp My comment is that the licensecharge isnt frighting compared to what we broadcaster pays in musicroyalties allready. Is this what you feared jack? :) -- Venlig hilsen/Kind regards Thomas Kirk ARKENA thomas@arkena.com http://www.arkena.com I'D LIKE TO BE BURIED INDIAN-STYLE, where they put you up on a high rack, above the ground. That way, you could get hit by meteorites and not even feel it...

...ruled invalid by a San Diego Federal jury: http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197001066 . That means that H.264 codecs can now be written, distributed and revised freely under any license their authors choose, including GPL, public domain, or any other, and $free now that royalties are no longer required. How does H.264 compare with GSM and G.729 in CPU demand (MIPS:Kbps) and audio quality at low bitrates? GSM is $free, but G.729 is higher quality (tho patented with at least $10 per running codec instance royalties). Will H.264 become the favorite high-quality Asterisk code...

...t; Hmm.. so what you're saying is that for under $2K I can get an unlimited > distribution license from the recording industry? To burn, distribute, > sell and market as much of their material as I like? Wow. Sign me up. Streaming music is $250 minimum, with, I believe, less than 2% royalties. For $500 a year you can stream all the music in the world pretty much, prefectly legally. If you make a profit, it's a royalty. But MP3's royalty here is higher than the royalty for the actual music. That is out of whack. Especially in an age where we are diligently search for new ways...

Don't say I didn't warn you: http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100520/googles-royalty-free-webm-video-may-not-be-royalty-free-for-long Don't get me wrong, I'll be as ecstatic as any of you to see Theora and VP8 succeed, I just see the patent system as far more insidious than I think many of you do. Shayne

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

I've compiled all the e-mails between me & MPEG-LA, along with an explanation and some major conclusions, here: http://www.librevideo.org/blog/2010/06/14/mpeg-la-answers-some-questions-about-avch-264-licensing/ Comments welcome, discussion even more so (preferably some of that on the site, too...). -- *Basil Mohamed Gohar* abu_hurayrah at hidayahonline.org

...====== > > hey josh, > > i talked to [faculty advisor] today and was told we must stop our online > > streaming. reasons for this rash decision involve around a new law that > > was put in place over the summer saying that stations who broadcast online > > have to pay royalties, but the amount to be paid has yet to be specified. > > First off the DMCA was enacted in 1998. I believe you are also exempt > for it if you also broadcast over-the-air. _That_ part might have > changed, as certainly the RIAA will be after money from traditional > labels. Everyt...