XMP Public Patent License

Last week I spoke to a meeting of the Open Source Committee of the Intellectual Property Owners Association about the Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) Public Patent License. The XMP Specification describes a format for reading and writing metadata found embedded within computer files, usually digital image files. The license grants the public the right, under Adobe-owned patents, to distribute compliant implementations of the XMP Specification. The license is offered by Adobe in order to encourage the use of XMP technology as the de facto standard for metadata in digital content.

The XMP Public Patent License can be found here. Gunar Penikis has written about the license here. Here's a statement by the Creative Commons.