[M4IF Discuss] Use Fees (Was FW: MPEG-4 Audio Licensing begins)

[Holger Grahn - Bitmanagement]

Hi
I would like to give an realistic example for systems content  where its
difficult to measure the normal playing time :
The presentation is a slide show like an power point presentation or a photo
album:
It has also 2 buttons for jumping to the next or previous slide,
and a user adjustable slider to have an automated "go to next slide" timer.
The playing time is really dependent on how fast the user presses the "goto
next slide"
button or how the user adjust the automatic playback speed.
What is the playing time in this case :
0 because an image or slide has no inherent duration,
or as long as a the average user will look at the presentation,
or does the content hoster need to measure how long the user interacts with
the content ?
Sounds hard to me to solve, until one correlates the fees with the number of
bits in the stored or transmitted MPEG-4 content.
Regarding Open Source projects :
Ben wrote:
>Making actual, final .mp4 file with MPEG4IP is on par in complexity for an
end user
>as, say, recompiling and installing a new Linux kernel.  MPEG4IP doesn't
>meaningfully compete with the commercial products that pay license fees.

Pre-Built binaries of mpeg4ip and howtos for end-users are offered in the
internet.
What if some instutions, university uses it for some internal intranet video
transmission (Illegal use ?)
And I think it need to be considered that millions (?) of computer users are
already using
different OpenSource MPEG-4 video codecs to squeeze down DVD's or recorded
TV-Shows onto normal CD's.
I think trying to collect the fees in such use cases is probably impossible,
and taken action against developers, hosters of such tools would fall back
as bad marketing for MPEG-4.
Best Regards
Holger