[ale] Phillips CD patent

[James P. Kinney III]

OK. I tried posting a tarball f the scanned images of the letter, but
there is a max size on the list that prevents it. So I put them on my
webserver

http://www.localnetsolutions.com/~jkinney/

The images are big.

On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 17:40, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> 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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