[M4IF Discuss] What is the REAL advantage?

[Contin Laura]

Larry,
thank you for your clarification, though I still need further details.
Let consider the case of remote monitoring through the web.
The end-user produces his own sequences and a service provider offers
for a fee hosting of the private contents on a server and the end user
can connect to that server and view/download his own (private/password
protected) contents.
In this case:
1. Does the end user pay 25 cents for the encoder + 25 cents for any
decoder installed?
2. Does the hosting service provider pays 0.033 cents/minute for each
(private) video viewed/downloaded by the end user?
3. What about if the service provider is NOT hosting the contents, but
it is giving only the secure internet access to the home private server?
4. If the service provider allows the downloading of the player, does he
has to pay 25 cents/download?
Thanks in advance for any clarification.
Best regards,
Laura Contin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Horn [mailto:LHorn   mpegla.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2024 9:42 PM
> To: Vasanth Shreesha; discuss   lists.m4if.org
> Subject: RE: [M4IF Discuss] What is the REAL advantage?
> 
> 
> Hello, Vasanth.
> 
> In the case of the so-called "use" fees, royalties follow 
> remuneration:
> If a service provider or content provider/owner receives 
> remuneration in
> connection with offering/providing the MPEG-4 video for viewing or
> having the video viewed, then royalties are charged for the 
> use of such
> MPEG-4 video data.  If there is no remuneration to the 
> service provider
> or content provider/owner in connection with offering/providing the
> MPEG-4 video for viewing or having the video viewed as in the case of
> the private communications that you describe, however, then 
> the use fee
> does not apply; rather, the encoder that encodes such content must be
> licensed and the applicable royalty paid.
> 
> Regards,
> Larry Horn
> MPEG LA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vasanth Shreesha [mailto:vasanth   pav.research.panasonic.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2024 2:51 PM
> To: discuss   lists.m4if.org
> Subject: RE: [M4IF Discuss] What is the REAL advantage?
> 
> 
> Hello all,
>         How about licensing in a P2P network? Can consumers 
> encode MPEG4
> content
> and transmit it to their friends/family without paying the 2 
> cents/hour
> license fee?
> 
> -vasanth 
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> Vasanth Shreesha                                
> Panasonic AVC American Laboratory, Inc. 
> http://www.pavcal.com 
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