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The license is bounded by specific encoding and decoding conditions; use outside these conditions—such as decoding commercially encoded content—may not be covered.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is a fragment; full legal scope depends on surrounding clauses (ids 59195, 59193, 59189). The primary proposition is the permitted encoding and personal-activity decoding uses.
Readers are permitted to encode AVC video and to decode AVC video only when it was encoded by a consumer in a personal activity, within the scope of this license.
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The license is bounded by specific encoding and decoding conditions; use outside these conditions—such as decoding commercially encoded content—may not be covered.
Readers are permitted to encode AVC video and to decode AVC video only when it was encoded by a consumer in a personal activity, within the scope of this license.
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