[M4IF Discuss] hourly usage fee for MPEG4

[Craig Birkmaier]

At 5:54 PM -0800 3/5/02, Rob Koenen wrote:
>  > He noted that much of what CNN is
>>  streaming is intended to cross promote other services; that they want
>>  consumers to access and use these services freely.
>
>Thanks for the interesting feedback.
>
>The basic question here (to MPEGLA and licensors) is:
>does cross-promotion fall in the content-for-remuneration category.
>Or does it depend - and then on what does it depend?

I "think" that Gordon's assumption is that CNN would be liable for 
the usage fees based on the fact that the web site is advertiser 
supported, and that the they are in the business of making a profit 
creating and distributing content.
Gordon also mentioned that CNN had recently entered into a deal with 
Real Networks for a premium news subscription service. Clearly 
something like this would be subject to the usage fees.
ANd then there is the whole issue of usage fees for broadcasting that 
is still in limbo. This could potentially subject all CNN networks to 
usage fees if MPEG-4 were used by Digital cable, DBS or DTV 
broadcasters. But it is not clear who would be liable here.
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Regards
Craig Birkmaier
Pcube Labs