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Originally posted by directfiesta
Do you think Acacia is infriging other peoples patent by making their presentation available on phone lines.
Who has those patents???
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I believe phone, cable, satellite and about everything else is supposed to be covered in the Acacia patents.
We are looking at separating all video to dedicated sites for our industry content licensing and leasing and for our consumer sites.
Acacia is demanding royalties from gross company revenue, not just revenue derived from video. At the very least I think we should be prepared with figures that separate and breakdown the video costs and revenue from the other site revenue.
Photos still make up the majority of downloading on most sites. Even if the patents are ruled as valid, for them to be demanding royalties be based on gross income no matter what percentage of the total content video constitutes strikes me as very unfair -
mp4 licensing has exemptions for smaller users and a cap for large users, which makes licensing much more palatable and allows smaller users to make entry and maybe eventually grow into users that can pay ever growing license fees.
Acacia apparently feels they have a patent where it is "their way - or the hiway" - no breaks offered.