[ID3 Dev] patents

[Paul Taylor]

What has happened with MP3 patents ?

Mark Smith wrote:
> That is pretty much my reading of things, but I thought it might be 
> interesting raise it here, since it came up on another list.
>
> best,
>
> Mark
>
> On 29 May 2007, at 14:50, Florian Heidenreich wrote:
>
>> In addition to what Ben said, ID3 tags (neither ID3v1 nor ID3v2) are 
>> part of the MP3 spec so we should be on the safe side.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Florian
>>
>>
>> Ben Bennett schrieb:
>>> It is better not to know.  Really.
>>> You get nailed for the serious money for wilful infringement.
>>> However, tagging doesn't know (or at least need to know) about any of
>>> the internal details of mp3 tags.  You could theoretically apply ID3v2
>>> tags to a word doc, a jpeg, or whatever you wanted.  Now... the target
>>> app probably couldn't read it with the leading "junk", but that's a
>>> different story.
>>>          -ben
>>> On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 02:25:11PM +0100, Mark Smith wrote:
>>>> Does anyone know, or have a view about, whether the recent 
>>>> courtroom  shenanigans regarding mp3 patents have any bearing on 
>>>> the creation  and use of ID3 tags? Particularly whether or not we, 
>>>> as developers of  tagging software, have anything to be concerned 
>>>> about.
>>>>
>>>> It seems that maybe doing anything even vaguely connected with mp3  
>>>> could be seen as swimming in shark-infested waters.
>>>>
>>>> best,
>>>>
>>>> Mark Smith
>>
>> --Mp3tag - the universal Tag editor
>> http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
>>
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