Interesting post by Ken Rockwell

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matthew77

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Saw this on kenrockwell.com

Think there's any truth to it?

"Per the users manual, Nikon has not licensed AVC video coding from
its owner, MPEGLA.com for commercial use, implying that you may not use video shot with a D7000 for any commercial purpose, other
than private personal use. Sorry, buy a camcorder! What's going on
here is that patented algorithms used to encode video have to be
licensed from their owners in order to use them legally for any
purpose, and Nikon hasn't paid to license the algorithms used by the
D7000's video section for you or I to be able to use these files for any commercial use. You pro shooters had better look into this before
shooting anything serious with this camera. Maybe this is why pros
shoot the Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 7D for video, not Nikon."
 
It's a legit concern... but only if you sell your film to a major US distributor. Literally no one else will care in the slightest. Now you sell it to Sony, you better tell them what you shot it on.
 
There was a similar post about the 7d when it came out. Same thing in the manual somewhere.
Easy solution - transcode to an I frame codec.
Actually come to think of it. These manuals might be out of date with the laws regarding h264.
As far as I know the licensing on h264 changed a few months ago.
 
jdv said:
. Now you sell it to Sony, you better tell them what you shot it on.
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Even then, it's a total non-issue. What you shot it on is irrelevant. The only question is if you're selling products in the h.264 format to end users. If you shot on an h.264 camera, and transcoded to ProRes, then you're free and clear, you have no issue. In fact, even if you delivered it to Sony in h.264, it wouldn't matter. They'd pay the license fee on the blu-ray discs.

Basically, simply put -- don't worry about it. The only way you're likely to ever encounter any liability whatsoever, is if you sold camera-original footage right off the SD card, to end users.
 
Sure, this is completely non-sense. The people should talk about what they know. Not anything else.
 
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