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["Richard Mavrogeanes" <>]

Great question.  

I've asked the patent holders. Some say "yes" because unless you can
show an audit trail to how the royalty was paid. Some say "no", you only
pay the royalty once. Some say "yes" unless you take steps to ensure it
won't work unless there is a fully paid decoder installed.  I'm afraid
there is no firm answer and it's legal limo.

/rich
   

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Fulchiero 
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Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 1:27 PM
To: Dave Devereaux-Weber
Cc: Joel Jaeggli; Richard Mavrogeanes; Todd Needham (RESEARCH); Ben
Fineman; Research Channel Working Group; wg-multicast
Subject: Re: Joint Techs HD Multicast

Dave,

I know I sound like a dumb parrot repeating himself (and maybe I am).

But does not the fact that we have already paid for an MPEG2 decoder
when we purchase a computer with a DVD player mean that, as individuals,
we would not have licensing issues with using VLC on that computer?

Is there any legal reason we should we have to pay for the license
twice? No-one has answered this yet.


Frank Fulchiero
Digital Media Specialist
Connecticut College


On Jul 13, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Dave Devereaux-Weber wrote:

>
> Ironically, VLC does incorporate a codec for VC-1, and, 
> hypothetically, using VLC to play a VC-1 stream is OK, while using VLC

> to play an MPEG-2 stream has licensing issues.
>
> Dave