[M4IF Discuss] Dispute won't clock QuickTime 6 -- ZDNET

[Rob Koenen]

Thanks Sebastian.
The article was already on www.m4if.org
For outsider on the talks between licensors / MPEG LA and their customers,
it is good to understand that progress is being made. This is in line with
the understanding gained during the Fairfax meeting.
A public, itemized summary of the Fairfax discussions is online here:
http://www.m4if.org/public/documents/vault/m4-out-20017.php
Kind Regards,
Rob
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> From: Moeritz, Sebastian [mailto:sm   dicas.de]
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> Subject: [M4IF Discuss] Dispute won't clock QuickTime 6 -- ZDNET
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> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-901282.html
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> Dispute won't clock QuickTime 6
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> By Ian Fried
> Special to ZDNet News
> May 7, 2002, 9:20 AM PT
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> Apple Computer said Monday that it would release QuickTime 6 late this
> summer, even though it has yet to resolve a licensing dispute 
> over a new
> file format it plans to adopt.
> Apple, which is building QuickTime 6 around the MPEG-4 file 
> format, is one
> of several tech companies that balked at a licensing 
> agreement that would
> require many of those that broadcast using the format to pay 
> a royalty.
> 
> In February, Apple delayed QuickTime 6 because of the dispute.
> 
> Apple said there has been progress from MPEG LA, which 
> licenses the format,
> but said that a final deal has not been worked out.
> "It just means we're very hopeful," Apple Senior Vice President Phil
> Schiller said in an interview. Schiller said things were 
> "moving in the
> right direction."
> Apple plans to release QuickTime 6 as part of an update, 
> code-named Jaguar,
> to its Mac OS X operating system.
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