
On Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 8:53:03 AM, timo wrote:
b) What is the IPR licensing situation regarding the defining specification. May it be freely implemented without roalty? if so, please say so. If not, please give details of where the relevant licenses may be obtained.
tknc> MMA IP Policy that applies in this case can be found in tknc> http://www.midi.org/about-mma/policy.shtml Excellent, please add that link to the registration document.
c) Can you say a little more about
Many synthetic audio compositions have associated intellectual property rights. It is conceivable that the rights owners of sp- midi content will want to protect their rights by applying security mechanisms that prohibit the rendering of the content without a legally acquired license to do so.
and how that would affect a conformant reader of this media type?
tknc> The above does not affect an SP-MIDI conformant reader. The next tknc> sentence states: "These mechanisms would be applied externally to the tknc> Content-Type defined here; sp-midi content itself is not encrypted tknc> internally." So if the content owner wants to encrypt SP-MIDI, it must tknc> be wrapped inside something else, and then this wrapper is encrypted. In tknc> that case, the whole package is not conformant to the sp-midi media tknc> type, but only the SP-MIDI part inside. Thanks for the clarification; makes sense. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Interaction Domain Leader Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG