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Haggis@wk » 04 May 2010 02:12 am Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

All your video are belong to us:

“You see, there is something very important, that the vast majority of both consumers and video professionals don’t know: ALL modern video cameras and camcorders that shoot in h.264 or mpeg2, come with a license agreement that says that you can only use that camera to shoot video for ‘personal use and non-commercial’ purposes (go on, read your manuals).”

Well, I've looked through my manual. I've read the pages I think this restriction might be in, and I've looked through the index for "copyright" or any such word, and I haven't found anything such as this report says exists. That may just mean that I'm unobservant, of course.

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Well, I've looked through my manual. I've read the pages I think this restriction might be in, and I've looked through the index for "copyright" or any such word, and I haven't found anything such as this report says exists. That may just mean that I'm unobservant, of course.

Not that many consumer cameras use MPEG-2. It's mostly restricted to high end professional cameras such as those commercial videographers use. That's why the restrictions are troubling, The author of the article points out that the truly professional video camcorder, the $8000 Canon XL-H1A that uses mpeg2, also comes with a similar restriction. That throws their work product into a possible legal limbo. Imagine the next Zapruder moment is captured on the Canon XL-H1A and the MPEG-LA lawyers tell the videographer that he has to hand it over since they own the rights to it as outlined in the license.

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Indeed that's not a nice thought. My camera uses AVCHD, which presumably isn't caught by the clause under discussion.