Message-ID: <mailto:Pine.PCW.3.91.950111070607.14503A@maggie.Library.Arizona.EDU> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 07:08:59 -0800 From: Stuart Glogoff <mailto:sglogoff@LIBRARY.ARIZONA.EDU> Subject: Re: UNISYS Relents on fees for GIF To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
Because there was some discussion on IMAGELIB a week or so ago about the threat to free access for .gif, I thought this message from EDUPAGE might be good to post. Stuart Glogoff, U of Arizona Library>UNISYS RELENTS ON PATENT INFRINGEMENT
>Unisys has backed down on its intention to extract license fees from
>software companies that use its patented approach to displaying graphics
>online. The Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, is so popular, many
>software companies apparently thought the algorithm was in the public
>domain. Unisys now says it will seek fees only for newly created products
>that come out in 1995 or thereafter, and only from major for-profit
>software developers. (Chronicle of Higher Education 1/13/95 A20)