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Flash Legal IssuesFlash Legal IssuesPosted Jan 9, 2009 4:05 UTC (Fri) by jrincayc (guest, #29129)Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's 2008 retrospective
>But support for many other Flash features, including audio and simple playback from online sites, still is not especially solid, and other interactive Flash applications do not work at all.
Of course flash support for audio and video is not particularly good for many sites, since legally, in the US and other countries with software patents, it cannot be distributed without a license for the relevant codecs. For example, youtube uses MP3 for the audio and H.263 for the video. Both those have unexpired patents, so free software for displaying youtube videos is legally problematic in the US and other countries where software patent exist. Until the patents are either invalidated or expire, or the companies grant royalty free permission, this problem will exist. The possibility of getting sued tends to decrease the number of programmers who will work on a project.
http://www.itu.int/ipr/IPRSearch.aspx?iprtype=PS
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