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Comments on: Photographers ask camera makers to open up

It's time for Nikon, Canon, others to unlock their file formats, photographers say. At stake: the future of the world's image libraries.

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Alright......
by Prndll April 25, 2005 5:30 PM PDT
Tell me this....

If JPEG is an open standard format, how can a legal lawsuit be created based on copyright infringement of the use of the JPEG format?
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Time will tell
by Andrew J Glina April 25, 2005 6:35 PM PDT
Good point. Hopefully the answer is "You can't".
open standard format
by Jim Harmon April 26, 2005 4:37 AM PDT
It would probably be more accurate to say "de facto standard." To the best of my knowledge, JPG format is just as copyrighted as the GIF format.
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