[ID3 Dev] patents

[Jim]

I'm guessing he's talking about Microsoft getting nailed with a 1.5 billion
judgment for violating an Alcatel-Lucent patent.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Taylor" <paul_t100 at fastmail.fm>
To: <id3v2 at id3.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [ID3 Dev] patents


> 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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