Are you in the business of selling DVDs?

[stickgirl Profile Private message]

How many of us who make and sell DVDs for a living are paying royalties to MPEG LA for the MPEG2 technology you are using?

Kathy

[DickK Profile Private messageWebsite]

And your reference to the requirement for that is...?

Dick

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

I just did a search on MPEG LA, and though most of it was written in legalese, the impression was that the patents involve companies, not individuals. The lawsuits I saw were directed toward manufacturers using the technology inside their products.

Barbara

[stickgirl Profile Private message]

And your reference to the requirement for that is...?Dick

The Gold and Producer manual states the following:

"MPEG-2 Applicable Use Notice
ANY USE OF THIS PRODUCT OTHER THAN CONSUMER PERSONAL USE MAY IN ANY MANNER THAT COMPLIES WITH THE
MPEG-2 STANDARD FOR ENCODING VIDEO INFORMATION FOR PACKAGED MEDIA IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED WITHOUT
A LICENSE UNDER APPLICABLE PATENTS IN THE MPEG-2 PATENT PORTFOLIO, WHICH LICENSE IS AVAILABLE FROM MPEG
LA, L.L.C., 250 STEELE STREET, SUITE 300, DENVER, COLORADO 80206."

Kathy

[trulytango Profile Private message]

Hi

Check out this thread from a while ago

http://www.proshowenthusiasts.com/viewt ... =mpeg#5645

Brian makes an interesting comment regarding the actual cost per DVD if the license was enforced

Regards
Iris

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

In reading the thread Iris pointed to, I caught the notion that I might be all right with my DVD's since I use Sony Architect to do them, not Producer. Now I'm more than curious and will have to locate the agreement I never bothered to read.

Barbara

[sheldonk Profile Private message]

It sounds to me that if you produce DVD's from your computer from any program for any commercial purpose, you owe a royalty! I just wonder how many of these royalties are ever actually collected.

Sheldon