Last call for review comments for audio/sp-midi

[Chris Lilley]

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.




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