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Group sets MPEG-4 licensing standards
News MPEG LA, a group of patent holders governing MPEG-4, on Monday finalised licensing terms for the media delivery standard, bowing to market pressure for manageable royalty rates. Also, MPEG LA set a minimum threshold so that content owners with...
[July 16, 2002, 12:19]
MPEG-4 adoption gets closer as licence released
News The license released on Monday is essentially the same as one proposed by the consortium, MPEG LA, in July. Apple agreed to license MPEG-4 a month before MPEG LA's licence terms were finally made public.
[November 26, 2002, 9:24]
Digital media group makes stand on piracy
News MPEG LA (MPEG Licensing Association), a group of companies that hold patent rights related to the MPEG 4 audio and video standard, has created its own description of what features it thinks that digital rights management (DRM) technology should...
[October 3, 2003, 11:20]
RealNetworks: MPEG-4 could be DOA
News His remarks address a fee structure put forth in early February by MPEG LA, a licensing body representing 18 patent holders of the technology. Larry Horn, vice president of licensing and business development at MPEG LA, said he disagrees with...
[April 26, 2002, 8:43]
MPEG-4 backers protest Microsoft licence
News MPEG LA, which represents 18 patent holders that have claims on underlying MPEG-4 technology, set licensing terms in November after concern that the original royalty rates priced adopters such as Apple out of the market.
[January 10, 2003, 7:51]
Apple backs MPEG-4 despite fee dispute
News The computer maker took the unusual step of releasing the software in absence of a final licensing agreement with MPEG LA, a licensing body representing 18 patent holders that have claims on underlying MPEG-4 technology, a next-generation...
[June 5, 2002, 9:00]
Apple's MPEG-4 snub may halt QuickTime
News Apple's rejection of licensing terms is the highest-profile response yet to MPEG LA, a licensing body representing 18 patent holders with claims on underlying MPEG-4 technology. Horn said MPEG LA hopes to finalise its licensing model in the next 3...
[February 13, 2002, 12:03]
Companies fear costly MPEG-4 licences
News The reaction comes in response to a long-awaited blueprint unveiled last week by MPEG LA, a licensing body representing 18 patent holders with claims on underlying MPEG-4 technology. Although ISMA representatives said the group was pleased to see...
[February 11, 2002, 10:50]
Apple launches QuickTime 6
News Apple's release of QuickTime 6 came just hours before the resolution of a licensing scuffle with MPEG LA, the group of patent holders governing the technology, has been resolved. MPEG LA wanted to charge per user for streaming, which would have...
[July 16, 2002, 9:48]
Tech group backs MPEG-4 audio licence
News This is the type of licensing we hoped the MPEG LA organization would have come out with on the MPEG-4 visual side. Apple quickly rejected the MPEG LA licensing plan, previewing but refusing to release new QuickTime products that support the...
[March 27, 2002, 11:15]
Piracy protection costs 'prohibitive'
News Patents used to create the standard are drawn from a small group of companies, which includes Philips and Sony and is known as MPEG LA. MPEG LA is thought to be demanding a $1 payment for every phone sold using the technology, plus a per...
[April 5, 2005, 9:25]
Real's open-source code lacks MPEG-4
News MPEG LA -- a consortium of companies holding patents attached to implementations of the MPEG-4 standard -- announced terms for its visual and systems licence last summer. On 15 July, 2002, MPEG LA announced the terms of the licence, which specifies...
[January 23, 2003, 7:28]
China rejects Western Mpeg format
News Hardware manufacturers and content providers pay licensing fees to the Mpeg Licensing Authority (Mpeg LA) for the use of these compression standards. Mpeg LA represents 18 patent holders, including Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems.
[August 1, 2003, 10:25]
MPEG-4 gets a new rival
News Under the plan, put forward by MPEG LA, licensees would pay 25 cents each for MPEG-4 products such as decoders and encoders, with fees capped at $1m a year for each licensee. In addition, the Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA), a standards...
[February 25, 2002, 10:57]
Video format turns to open-source developers for aid
News Licensing body MPEG LA has proposed requiring licensees to pay a per-minute streaming charge that adds up to 2 cents an hour for video clips delivered in the MPEG-4 format. On2, however, says MPEG LA may run afoul of antitrust laws.
[June 24, 2002, 8:42]
MPEG-4 format to boost digital video
News The main licensing clearinghouse for MPEG-4 standards, MPEG LA, has asked companies to submit for consideration any patents they believe cover the H.264 format by Friday. The growing endorsement of the standard was almost derailed earlier this year...
[October 11, 2002, 11:53]
Microsoft eases digital media licensing
News In comparison, MPEG-LA -- a consortium of companies holding patents attached to MPEG-4 -- charges 25 cents per encoder and decoder, or 50 cents for both. For its part, Apple, which agreed to license MPEG-4 a month before MPEG-LA's licence terms...
[January 7, 2003, 8:43]
RealNetworks reveals code in single Helix
News But MPEG-4 had a rocky start this year, in part due to prohibitive licensing fees planned by MPEG LA, the group of companies holding patents on the technology. RealNetworks is touting the lower cost of Helix licensing compared with MPEG-4, the...
[October 30, 2002, 13:21]
Q&A: Apple's Steve Jobs
News Jobs says that Apple is close to making a pact with MPEG LA, a licensing body representing 18 patent holders that have claims on MPEG-4 technology. Is MPEG-4 video technology the next big thing? QuickTime 6 is the first real implementation of MPEG...
[June 5, 2002, 16:03]
Microsoft in dock over JPEG patent
News Forgent initially tried to sell this patent to Compaq to give it a counterclaim in its lawsuit against MPEG LA. Forgent Networks has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging the software giant infringed on its digital-image compression patent...
[April 25, 2005, 10:35]
