[M4IF Discuss] Calculating IP Multicase usage fees

[Rob Koenen]

Good question. Let's distinguish:
1) no renumeration 
2) users don't pay but content provider collects some (modest) advertising
   revenue on the website that this stream is linked from 
3) users pay per view.
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Birkmaier [mailto:craig   pcube.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2024 13:55
> To: discuss   lists.m4if.org
> Subject: [M4IF Discuss] Calculating IP Multicase usage fees
> 
> 
> John McClenny <jmcclenny   sandstream.com>
> 
> posed another interesting question about the MPEG-4 usage fee 
> on OpenDTV today:
> 
> 
> >So, if I commercially encode MPEG-4 and multicast it over an IP 
> >network, does this count as one copy or multiple copies :)?  Isn't 
> >this going to keep everyone on either MPEG-2 or some other 
> >proprietary encoder?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards
> Craig Birkmaier
> Pcube Labs
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