MPEG RF
Royalty Free MPEG
Why A Royalty-Free MPEG u0026#8212; A Manifesto
Why A Royalty-Free MPEG — A Manifesto The world needs royalty-free media standards Since 1997 when regulatory authorities began approving patent pooling for MPEG standards, core technologies of MPEG have been offered under royalty-based pool licensing regimes now seen by many as one of the defining characteristics of MPEG’s success as the world’s leading media technologies standardizing body, even though the lack of royalty-free, standardized codecs is a sorely missed technology for the World Wide Web. But this view of MPEG as only a royalty-bearing standard is far from universally shared. In 2008, even the head of MPEG said: “I believe MPEG should enlarge its portfolio of standards by offering some that are expected to be royalty free and typically less performing and with less functionality next to those that are state of the art, more performing and with more functionality…. The problem is of course not in that obligation but in the fact that “fair – reasonable – non discriminatory” used to be meaningful words when standards were designed for the needs of one industry whose members generally shared the business model according to which the standard would be used…. So, the problem is not “how many cents, tens…
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