[M4IF Discuss] What is the REAL advantage?

[Levantovsky, Vladimir]

This brings another aspect of non-personal use with or without remuneration
- let's say TV station web site has a page that links all the latest news
video feeds. They do not charge anybody for viewing the news, but the page
itself contains advertisement and video is sometimes preceded by short
commercial feed.
What would be the determination of remuneration in this case - web page ads
do generate income but do not use MPEG4, video feed attracts public, but
there is no charge for viewing.
Just a thought!
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Koenen [mailto:rkoenen   intertrust.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2024 1:17 PM
To: 'Jeff Handy'; discuss   lists.m4if.org
Subject: RE: [M4IF Discuss] What is the REAL advantage?
The way I understand it (Again, Larry correct me if I am wrong)
the distinction is not whether the use is personal, but whether
the use is associated with remuneration. Often, personal use will
not involve remuneration, but sometimes it will. If I sell you
my home videos (you don't want to buy them , but let's assume)
then I owe a use fee to MPEGLA under the current conditions.
It will be an administrative challenge, but this is the situation.
Often, non-personal use will involve remuneration, but sometimes
it will not. Example (testing the waters!) - a government puts its 
information online in MPEG-4. As far as I understand, no use fee 
is asked for.
Many schools in Europe are public, and require no fees to be paid.
I think that these can deploy MPEG-4 technology without having to worry
about a use fee. The same may apply to US schools ... 
Let's see if this is right, or whether I am way off base.
Rob