Standards development organizations, known as SDOs, inevitably face patent issues in their work. The ISO MPEG standards committee is perhaps the most successful in the area of patents. SMPTE not so much.
Archives for August 2016
Movies to the Home Revisited
Some things simply never die. (See There Are Better Ideas for In-Home Movies than Screening Room.) As long as streaming video on-demand (SVOD) exists, there will be those who want to use it to stream first release movies to the home.
Google’s Goof with Oracle
In the never ending courtroom sagas of Silicon Valley, a new one arose this month that could impact the recent Oracle v Google decision in favor of Google’s fair use of Oracle’s Java API. (See Will Google’s Fair Use Win Help GDC.)