--> Jitendra Goel writes:
>Hi All,
>
>I came to know from one of my colleague that if
>companies follows MPEG-4 standards during
>implementations then they have to pay royalty to
>*MPEG-4 Standardizing Committee* just because
>they are following the MPEG-4 standards.
>
>e.g. Supposing a company "A Corp" comes up with
>MPEG-4 solutions ( player/authoring tool/server ...)
>that are fully compliant with MPEG-4 standards.
>Does it mean, it needs to pay anything to MPEG-4
>committee just because its products are MPEG-4
>standard compilant.
>
>your comments are most welcome.
The MPEG-4 standard - like most other audio/video coding standards -
includes a number of features which are covered by patents and other
IPR. It is likely that you will have to obtain a license to use that
IPR before using (certain features of) the standard, and this might
involve payment of royalties. You can find more information at:
http://www.cselt.it/mpeg/ MPEG home page
http://www.m4if.org/ MPEG-4 industry forum
To make this discussion relevent to the IETF, I note that the audio/video
transport working group has not been notified of any IPR on the proposed
RTP payload formats for MPEG-4 media. Since this discussion includes the
joint MPEG/IETF mailing list developing such formats, I remind people that
section 10 of RFC 2026 discusses the requirements for IPR disclosure when
working on IETF standards.
Colin Perkins
IETF AVT co-chair
