From: "Nance, Robert D Mr. Contractor/ERC" <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:36:02 -0600
There is a powerpoint presentation on the site that gives some pricing for
licensing based on encoders, decoders for hardware and software and based on
number of subscribers for streams over the internet.
Slide number 13 says:
Internet Video decoder and encoder use
$0.25/subscriber ($0.24 w/o reporting country) subject to $1,000,000 annual
cap or
$0.000333/min ($0.00032/min w/o reporting country) subject to $1,000,000
annual cap or
Paid-up $1,000,000 annual license (w/o reporting)
First 50,000 subscribers/year = no charge**
This use royalty applies only where the video provider offers or provides
MPEG-4 video for remuneration (direct or indirect but not including
self-advertising/promotion)
Licensee is the Video Provider (apparent source of the MPEG-4 video to the
user)
*Each sublicense will be restricted to the environment for which it is
granted
**Available to one legal entity in an affiliated group of companies
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So this appears to say that up to 50,000 subscribers, you have nothing to
worry about. Beyond that, you need to pay up either 0.25/subscriber or
0.000333/min or $1,000,000.
The last part basically says that if you are not charging your customers
(the ones that you would pay .25/subscriber) and/or are not receiving
advertising revenue (the most likely way that you'd charge the .000333/min),
then you don't pay ANY ROYALTY, no matter how many people subscribe (you
can, however, promote yourself "on the air").
-Bob
-=>>Apple didn't buy them off; when I mentioned the MP4 license I was
-=>>talking about the royalty fees from them. Sorry for being vague. Of
-=>>course if you used a different codec such as Sorensen or something,
-=>>you won't have such fees.
-=>http://www.mpegla.com/
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