[M4IF Discuss] RE: [M4IF News] MPEG-4 Visual and Systems Licensing Announced!!

[Moeritz, Sebastian]

This news  is excellent for the whole MPEG-4 community  -- plus, of course,
the news from Apple.  Although it took some time, we now do have a licensing
scheme one can work with. To the day, four months ago, I posted this to the
list ....
"Let's face it --  the licensing issues will be resolved and a mutually
acceptable solution will be found, because it is the interest and desire of
all concerned. Period."
Let's look  forward to seeing MPEG-4 successfully used in a much broader way
than today and further deployed in a variety of exciting products and
services.
Kind regards.
Sebastian Moeritz
CEO, dicas
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From: "Rob Koenen" <rkoenen   intertrust.com>
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Subject: [M4IF Discuss] RE: [M4IF News] MPEG-4 Visual and Systems Licensing
Announced!!
> Good to see the discussion start.
>
> Let's take it to the discuss list from the next mail on.
>
> Let's also note that I am not the originator of this news, only the
> passer-on.
>
> > However, what happens to companies that provide a freely downloadable
> > player?
> > If I read correctly, they are subject to the $1M/y cap for video and
> > $100k/y for Systems, am I correct?
>
> Sounds like it. If you are not in the video surveillance business, you
> may want to add Audio to your system (and you may even like audio
> if you *are* in the surveillance business).
>
> These companies also seem entitled to distribute the first 50,000 systems
> for free. But given the fact that you only mention the caps and not the
> per en/de-coder royalties, you must be thinking Big.
>
> Rob
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