Petter Reinholdtsen

HTC One X - Your video? What do you mean?
26th April 2012

In an article today published by Computerworld Norway, the photographer Eirik Helland Urke reports that the video editor application included with HTC One X have some quite surprising terms of use. The article is mostly based on the twitter message from mister Urke, stating:

"Drøy brukeravtale: HTC kan bruke MINE redigerte videoer kommersielt. Selv kan jeg KUN bruke dem privat."

I quickly translated it to this English message:

"Arrogant user agreement: HTC can use MY edited videos commercially. Although I can ONLY use them privately."

I've been unable to find the text of the license term myself, but suspect it is a variation of the MPEG-LA terms I discovered with my Canon IXUS 130. The HTC One X specification specifies that the recording format of the phone is .amr for audio and .mp3 for video. AMR is Adaptive Multi-Rate audio codec with patents which according to the Wikipedia article require an license agreement with VoiceAge. MP4 is MPEG4 with H.264, which according to Wikipedia require a licence agreement with MPEG-LA.

I know why I prefer free and open standards also for video.

Tags: digistan, english, h264, multimedia, personvern, standard, video, web.

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