[M4IF Discuss] Apple settles MPEG-4 dispute?

Ben Waggoner ben interframemedia.com
Thu Jun 6 13:15:39 EDT 2002


Rob,
    I was actually referring to platform vendors.  So, if a company with a
MPEG-4 codec wanted to support AAC encoding, they could use their own MPEG-4
video with the QuickTime AAC to build a product, instead of licensing the
AAC directly.
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on 6/6/02 12:03 PM, Rob Koenen at rkoenen   intertrust.com wrote:
> With all respect - this argument is based on a misconception.
> No end-user will ever license the codec directly.
> See my previous mail.



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