If you're a digital-video professional?someone who records weddings, sells stock footage, or edits B-roll?chances are good you deal with H.264. But after reading software license agreements, you might well wonder if you have rights to do so.
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recent blog post by Harvard Ph.D. student Ben Schwartz, including the provocative phrase "Final Cut Pro Hobbyist," put the spotlight on license terms in Apple's video-editing software by questioning when professionals may use H.264 video. A similar "personal and non-commercial activity" license requirement appears in Adobe Systems' competing Premiere package, too.
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