M'shita, others to draw up VCD standard for China
Reuters Story - July 15, 1998 04:07
Jump to first matched term TOKYO, July 15 (Reuters) - Video compact disc product
makers suffering from patent piracy in China will introduce a
new VCD standard they hope will be adopted by Chinese firms,
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd said on
Wednesday.
Matsushita said it and three other electronics producers
had agreed with the Chinese government on the creation of the
new VCD standard.
Matsushita, Sony Corp , Victor Co and
Philips Electronics NV of the Netherlands would
cooperate to develop the new standard by August, a Matsushita
spokesman said.
The spokesman said Chinese firms had been making VCD
products without paying licence fees to the four electronics
firms, which held patents on the VCD technology.
He said the four companies would ask Chinese makers to
adopt the new standard, but declined to say how adoption would
prevent such piracy of VCD technology.
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