Anti Piracy Compliance Program

Australian Replication Plants respect and support the copyrights of others. We insist on written documentation that you have the legal rights to replicate the information on your CD or DVD product. We also require that you complete the Intellectual Property Rights Form and Right to Replicate form for all projects.

Royalties and Patents

Standard manufacturing royalties are paid to the patent holders associated with the CD and DVD replication process. A CD or DVD can not be replicated legally without paying these royalties. The basic patent royalties are approx. $0.16AUD for a DVD-5, and $0.18AUD for a DVD-9. To avoid legal prosecution, fines, and crushing of your illegal discs you must confirm your Discs are manufactured by a fully licensed replication plant. 

Examples of additional royalties include:

MPEG LA (when MPEG compression is used)
Dolby (Dolby sound)
Thompson Multimedia (MP3 compression)
Macrovision (Macrovision anticopy software)
DVD Copy Control Association (CSS encryption)

Your project may be subject to a number of different royalties, such as the Disc royalty and Macrovision so you must be certain you are not in breech of these agreements, be safe be sure only use an Australian Replication Plant and you know you will have peace of mind.
It is not worth the risk, just to save a few cents.

Remember when you get a quote that is a bit cheaper, if the plant is not paying the royalties then they are ripping you off - did you get a huge discount or just a small percentage, so they didn't pay the royalty they stole the fee and kept it - and you are now a co-conspirator.

Royalties change often as the licensing rules change and are re-negotiated by all concerned. Technology evolves and new methods are used, prices can change with volume.

http://www.ip.philips.com/licensing/licensingpolicy.html

CSS Encryption

CSS is an acronym for Content Scrambling System and is intended to prevent the copying of digital video files directly from a DVD disc. This encryption will prevent the uninformed user from copying a DVD on their computer. However like all encryption schemes, it is not infallible. Software is downloadable from the internet to enable pirates to copy an CSS encrypted disc.

For projects that require CSS encryption, we only accept DLT tapes. However you can supply a DLT tape already CSS encrypted. Your project will incur additional mastering fees for CSS encryption.

Macrovision

The Macrovision Analogue Copy Protection System (ACP) prevents the copying from a DVD to any analogue video source by making the pictures unstable. This is a very effective system when applied to VHS however it does not prevent copying from DVD to a home computer.

Macrovision must be implemented during the authoring process. The licensing fee per disc is paid by contacting Macrovision and completing a usage agreement. A contract will be agreed to that allows you to produce a licensed number of discs. The CD/DVD Plant will report to Macrovision the volume of discs made under that license.

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