[ID3 Dev] patents

[Mark Smith]

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
>
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