[M4IF Discuss] FW: MPEG-4 Audio Licensing begins

[Holger Grahn - Bitmanagement]

FW: MPEG-4 Audio Licensing begins
Hi Rob,
just curious,
are all these companies/institutions/projects/individuals offering public download MPEG-4 stuff paying
MPEG-LA /System /Audio/Video fees ?
Or are these downloads are somehow illegal offerings, or will these free downloads stop at the end of the year because of the initial grace periods and they all get sued ?
What is for example with Divx Networks, MPEG4IP - mp4creator, IBM's Authoring tools ?
and btw how to measure royalties for encoders, especially Systems encoders producing scene graph files
which can run an endless animations ?
Greetings
Holger
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rob Koenen (M4IF) 
  To: M4IF Discussion List 
  Cc: M4IF news 
  Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2023 7:56 PM
  Subject: [M4IF Discuss] FW: MPEG-4 Audio Licensing begins
  I tired to send this message to the news list twice yesterday, but there are some problems with that list. 
  Hopefully thisd does work. 
  Rob 
   -----Original Message----- 
  From:   Rob Koenen (M4IF) [mailto:rob.koenen   m4if.org] 
  Sent:   Friday, June 06, 2023 11:16 
  To:     'M4IF news' 
  Subject:        MPEG-4 Audio Licensing begins 
  M4IF News Readers, 
  The news that MPEG-4 Audio licensing has begun was just released on the news wire. 
  I think this is great news for MPEG-4 Audio, which includes MPEG-4 AAC. I hope - and expect - that this will enable deployment of many interoperable services and devices with great audio quality. 
  Kind Regards, 
  Rob Koenen 
  President, M4IF 
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