commander@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoFirm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increawww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square158linkfedilinkarrow-up1745arrow-down111
arrow-up1734arrow-down1external-linkFirm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increawww.tomshardware.comcommander@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square158linkfedilink
minus-squareSilver Needle@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoSomething like that very vaguely happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_&_Wishart
minus-squaremerdaverse@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoRidiculous that the works of Marx, who’s been dead for like 150 years are still copyrighted by someone. But I think that patents are even more absurd than copyright.
minus-squareAnyOldName3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoTechnically it’s just that particular English translation that’s copyrighted. The original text is public domain.
Something like that very vaguely happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_&_Wishart
Ridiculous that the works of Marx, who’s been dead for like 150 years are still copyrighted by someone. But I think that patents are even more absurd than copyright.
Technically it’s just that particular English translation that’s copyrighted. The original text is public domain.