NikonRumors.com has an interesting post where they suggest that the D7000 licensing agreement says that the AVC codec used in video-recording can only be used for "personal and non-commercial use." Tons of discussion on the post by contributors.
I am not a lawyer but it seems that the "personal and non-commercial use" applies only to the second part of the restrictive clause ("decoding") and not to the first part ("encoding"). But if you use the camera to play back part of a clip that you recorded as a professional (i.e., during a for-profit film shoot), then you're in violation of the decoding restriction on playing for-profit material, even if the for-profit encoding was kosher. Right?
Can other people check the fine print / licensing agreements of their digicams or DSLRs to see if there are similar restrictions? What do you think of such end-runs around free use of our equipment?
Hmmm.. I just checked the Panasonic DMC-GH2 manual and it has the same boilerplate.
So do Canon EOS DSLR manuals, apparently. It's industrywide. OSNews has some great reportage on this: http://www.osnews.com/story/23236
One more link: http://www.cinema5d.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=14415
All in all.... troubling.
Leave a comment
New!: You can sign in using your Facebook, Google, OpenID, mixi, Yahoo, MovableType, or other third-party authentication system.