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  • Trademarks I think are the most commonplace for this to happen, but I believe it applies to all IP. I don’t believe that any laws are written with specific timeframes but if the court feels that a right holder knew about and didn’t take action against an infringer within a “reasonable” time (as to be determined by the count based on the circumstances surrounding the case), then an implicit license is inferred.

    If this was not done, it would encourage right holders to wait out infringement in order to achieve larger settlements.





  • Rude but true. But a lot of us are waking up from the fever dream we were fed. “We are the good guys! We are the best at everything because we work hard! That’s why we’re the richest, because we are the goodest and the most protecc”

    And then you grow up and you learn we built an empire on slavery and exploitation, ourselves even being exploited, so that some dumbass greedy fucker can live in a gold and marble palace and fuck stolen children and throw their bastard newborns into Lake Michigan

    It’s not a real country it’s all a pyramid scheme. We wouldn’t wake up until they went too far. It was always rotten underneath they just had enough wool over our eyes







  • So just to be clear for all of you:

    Dolby is not a creator of AV1, Dolby is not in charge of licensing decisions for AV1. All companies involved in HVEC and AV1 have not performed bait and switch.

    What has happened is that Dolby alleges that they already have a patent on parts of what makes AV1 work. This may be an accident, or maybe someone stole Dolby’s tech. This may be something that can be fixed by changing how the software works, without breaking the file format.

    It will be interesting to see how this one plays out.

    Also, I’ve been saying it for 30 years at this point, and I will keep saying it: FUCK patents, software patents especially, and fuck the stupid system of capitalism for making them necessary