commander@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day 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-square127linkfedilinkarrow-up1284arrow-down14
arrow-up1280arrow-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 · 1 day agomessage-square127linkfedilink
minus-squareChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 hours agoI’m gonna go patent Marxism lol. Maybe I’ll patent irony at the same time.
minus-squareSilver Needle@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 hours agoSomething like that very vaguely happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_&_Wishart
minus-squaremerdaverse@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·8 hours 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-up2·3 hours agoTechnically it’s just that particular English translation that’s copyrighted. The original text is public domain.
I’m gonna go patent Marxism lol. Maybe I’ll patent irony at the same time.
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.