What does the MPEG Industry Forum have to do with MPEG(-4) patents and licensing?
While licensing is not MPEGIF’s responsability, MPEGIF has been instrumental in getting licensing off the ground. Among MPEGIF’s membership there are many (potential) licensees, licensors and parties that are neither, but do have an interest. Many members are actually licensor and licensee at the same time. MPEGIF sees the easy access to licenses for essential patents under reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions as a very important enabler of wide scale adoption of the MPEG-4 Standard. That is why the Forum has been facilitating a number of meetings between licensors, licensees and other interested parties, and will do so in the future when a need is there. MPEGIF will not directly deal with patents, patent pools and patent licensing. This is strictly a matter for patent owners to resolve, and falls outside of MPEGIFs scope. Among other things, we have discussed in what ways MPEG-4 would be deployed and which business models licensors could consider to facilitate this d
