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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:...

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 ------------------------...

...your codecs through the IETF?' we explain that we've been trying for coming up on ten years. This release is about the latest step. If we (along with the other companies supporting unencumbered media) demonstrate enough support, we may finally succeed in creating an IETF Working Group for royalty-free wideband audio, and essential step to beginning the standardization process. Xiph.Org Supporting IETF Royalty Free Codecs BoF For some years now, Xiph.Org has been gently advocating royalty free codecs within the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) as a viable and preferred alternative to...

...your codecs through the IETF?' we explain that we've been trying for coming up on ten years. This release is about the latest step. If we (along with the other companies supporting unencumbered media) demonstrate enough support, we may finally succeed in creating an IETF Working Group for royalty-free wideband audio, and essential step to beginning the standardization process. Xiph.Org Supporting IETF Royalty Free Codecs BoF For some years now, Xiph.Org has been gently advocating royalty free codecs within the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) as a viable and preferred alternative to...

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 necessity rather than just being

...ream 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 by design and do not require this additional royalty. HTH, -r --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ ice...

...ent laws by not paying the royalties to some patent owners? I heard people saying that IVR technology is patented and google search for patents also say so. But we all are using IVR for ourselves and our customers without paying royalties to anyone. But when it comes to using g729, all of a sudden royalty issue comes in. So what is right to use and what is not? -- Zeeshan A Zakaria -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20070813/814a7146/attachment.htm

...tain permissions from the copyright holder of the particular *recording* of the composition you want to play. SoundExchange (a division of the RIAA) offers a compulsory license at .07 cents per 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 ar...

...row. If anyone has any thoughts or advice on what I should say during > this meeting I would greatly appreciate it. Sounds like you are in a bad position, as you're not paying the correct royalties anyway, and if you push the situation, they are likely to just shut it all off. Explain the royalty situation. Show him jwz's page on broadcasting. Good luck. jack. --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'un...

Last year I arranged with my college radio station and ITS department to webcast the radiostation using icecast. The webcast has been a wonderful success so far. My problem now is not technical, but political. A few days ago I recieved the following message from the station director: ================================================================== hey josh, i talked to [faculty advisor]

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

...ll persist. To make a comparison, as a > videographer, you would not want someone else either to steal or assume > the right to give away your work without your consent. Therefore, to > the extent VP8 includes technology owned by others (or Google as well) > and that technology is not royalty-free, then a pool license which > removes uncertainties regarding patent rights and royalties by making > that technology widely available on the same terms to everyone would be > beneficial to the market including those who wish to promote it. That > is what we are interested in offer...

...tly.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 neatness, these are good speed numbers. For the neatness, I didn't find a good algorithm to make a neatness measurement, so the neatness review is still at visual evaluation for now... For the royalty/patent-free aspect, I remember that I had few months ago this answer fr...

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

The H.264 codec patent by Qualcomm has been 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

...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 to compensate artists. > >You think it would be nice if Netscape charged 2% of all website > >royalties for HTML, etc? &g...

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

...ads. YMMV. However, mp3 streaming is going to die once Thompson and Fraunhoffer start bullying people. > Sounds like you are in a bad position, as you're not paying the correct > royalties anyway, and if you push the situation, they are likely to just > shut it all off. Explain the royalty situation. Show him jwz's page on > broadcasting. I agree, make sure you cover all the bases and definately take a look at jwz's page. Again, it has been my experience that most Universities pick up the tab on on the PRO's, I don't ever remember our station management having...