[M4IF Discuss] What the??

[Rob Koenen]

> Question (short response is OK): - I wasn't paying attention back then
(too
> busy building actual MPEG-4 product I guess :-) - when/how did MPEG-LA
> decide that it got the right to do for MPEG-4 what they do for MPEG-2? 

This was not MPEG LA's decision, but the decision of the 
patent holders. They get to choose who represents them.
MPEG never asked MPEG LA anything.
M4IF suggested end of '99 that MPEG LA could be a candidate 
to facilitate the evaluation of patents for essentiality
and to call the first meeting of patent holders.
After that, it was in the hands of the owners of essential
patents. I have not been in the discussions, but I believe 
that the patent holders asking MPEGLA to act as the licensing 
agent was not a foregone conclusion, when they got to make
that decision after a few meetings.
Best,
Rob
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