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Theora patents

Posted Feb 5, 2010 21:21 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Theora patents by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web

But the organisations who have had their lawyers do this research and gotten
an opinion could publish it, no?

Part of the problem perhaps is that the waters between licence issues due to
patents risks and patent risks to distributors are not quite clear (it seems from
this discussion anyway). E.g. a possible issue here, I wonder, is that publishing
such legal opinion might help clarify risk generally, but not be helpful to the risks
faced by the publishing organisation?

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Theora patents

Posted Feb 6, 2010 5:16 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Any lawyer you consult with likely ask you not to publish their legal
opinions especially when the issue is patents If the other party knows the
arguments you are making then you are putting all your cards on the table
and they can make their counter arguments much more stronger and sometimes
twist your arguments against you

As a general case lawyers would advise their clients to never talk to the
police as well and it is not because you have something to hide

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865