Howard Roll wrote:jamedia wrote:My thought was that if Nikon, Canon, Pannasonic, Fuji, BMD etc just ignore the RED patant they could. It would cause a biggger different problem for Red and the US patent office.
That's exactly what everyone did...and then Red sued them.
-Canon is in bed
-Sony battled them to a stalemate
-Blackmagic invented Braw
-Kinefinity had to drop raw to move to the US
-Apple is going to share licensing fees with Prores Raw
-Arri and Sigma use uncompressed CDNG and aren't subject to the patent
-Everyone else is stuck with external recording
Braw makes much more sense at the sub 10K level but I don't see Blackmagic giving it away anytime soon, why would Red?
Good Luck
I said Nikon, Sony Canon, Panasonic, Fuji, BMD which are all non US companies. They simply ignore the US patent and do Rsw in the rest of the world. if Red complain then Nikon, Sony,Canon, Panasonic, Fuji, BMD simply stop selling in the USA (if you want to drive in to Canada/Mexico they will have no problem selling to you) The reason being is I don't think the patent would hold up outside the USA, it has no jurisdiction outside the USA but if Red went to court outside the US the patent would hold water.
Basically the whole world, except the USA would have a whole range of RAW cameras but only RED in the USA. (other than the grey ones smuggled in from Canada and Mexico.) Yes the US market is big but others are as big or bigger.. Also with the range of equipment available outside the US it would boost the other film major making centres in India, Europe, Africa etc I think the situation would not help Red in the long run and it would, yet again, make the US patent office look silly.
It might even make Australia preferable to California as a base.
Besides Australia is closer to Middle Earth than California.