On 14 December 2012 10:26, Antoine Musso hashar+wmf@free.fr wrote:
Le 12/12/12 21:57, David Gerard a écrit :
If anyone owning a chunk of H.264 had a problem with Wikimedia doing things with H.264 in the US, it could only be bad for them. I would suggest this aspect isn't really a problem.
Morally I must agree. Legally I emit a huge doubt on this assumption. We had the SCO - Linux affair [1] a few years ago where some "unknown" company started sueing anyone using Unix based on copyright infringement. It only takes one company and a bunch of lawyers to start being sued. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_controversies
I was thinking legally too, but yeah, danger of patent trolls on serving - I was thinking only of the big guys. Definitely one for WMF legal.
Ingestion should be feasible outside the US, though, if accepting encumbered formats (e.g. anything a mobile phone records) is deemed a legal hazard.
- d.