[ale] Phillips CD patent

[Christopher Bergeron]

Hmmm.. IANAL, but this sounds like a scare tactic.  If you bought a 
product and aren't the manufacturer of the drive, I don't think you can 
be held accountable for creating cdroms/dvdroms with the device.  Since 
you're not "creating" the cdroms by hand (as if it were possible), and 
you're using a vendor's device, the vendor should be the only person 
that can be accountable.

Thats just my belief, but as I said, I Am Not A Lawyer.

-CB

Any possibility of you posting the letter or a scanned image of it?



James P. Kinney III wrote:

>I just got the strangest letter from Phillips IP legal group. Basically,
>they own butt loads of patents on CD technology. Including the making of
>the disks themselves. Apparently, there are some cd-r cd-rw and dvd-r
>and dvd-rw disk makers that are not paying out their license fees to
>Phillips for the making of the media. So the letter is a warning that if
>I, or my company specifically, is using any of the "bootleg" blank
>disks, Phillips will then consider that I am an accomplice and will be
>subject to paying the license fee on the disks myself.
>
>WTF!!!
>
>  
>


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