To all H.264/MPEG-2 camera owners in the EU: you may not be safe from software patents, they may be about to arrive via a backdoor:<br><br> <br>German high court declares all software potentially patentable<br><br><a href="http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/05/german-high-court-declares-all-software.html" target="_blank">http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/05/german-high-court-declares-all-software.html</a><br>
<br><br>BGH-Urteil zu Softwarepatenten stößt auf viel Kritik<br><br><a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/BGH-Urteil-zu-Softwarepatenten-stoesst-auf-viel-Kritik-1004005.html" target="_blank">http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/BGH-Urteil-zu-Softwarepatenten-stoesst-auf-viel-Kritik-1004005.html</a><br>
<br><br>This is simply dangerous when looking at the H.264 licensing fiasco. If you don't believe me please read my blog. If you are someone who can communicate the potential problems of this to the so called decision maker *please do so now*.<br>
<br>Just when you think Google's WebM/VP8 will solve the patent (troll)
problems that the video post business is suffering from we get this...<br><br>This is really worrying. Specially if you are a (small) business/video start-up etc. in Europe. Please act if you are in a position to do so.<br>
<br>Thanks,<br><br>Valentin Spirik<br><br><a href="http://indiworks.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://indiworks.wordpress.com/</a><br>