FW: [Mp4-tech] H.263 licensing issues

[Larry Horn]

Hello, Reeja.
We are not aware of any joint licensing efforts for H.263, so the only
alternative for now is to deal with individual patent owners.  For your
information, our MPEG-4 Visual License specifically names the current
MPEG-4 Visual Part 2 profiles in its field of use but does not name
H.263.  Even though H.263 is not included in the MPEG-4 Visual License,
the License does not exclude H.263 products where there are products
within the MPEG-4 Visual licensed field of use that are also covered by
the H.263 standard (e.g., MPEG-4 video frame with short header and H.263
baseline). For example, an H.263 decoder that can only decode H.263
bitstreams is not covered under the MPEG-4 Visual License, but an
encoder that generates H.263 baseline could be licensed for MPEG-4
Simple, which would include the video frame with short header that is
equivalent to H.263 baseline. 
I hope this is helpful.  Please let me know if you have additional
questions.
Best regards,
Larry Horn
-----Original Message-----
From: Baby Reeja Jayan [mailto:babyreeja ushustech.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2023 3:03 AM
To: MP4-Tech lists.mpegif.org
Subject: [Mp4-tech] H.263 licensing issues
hi,
Can anybody please let me know what are the licensing issues surrounding
H.263.
Does H.263 licensing also come under the purview of MPEG LA?
thanks
reeja
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