[ Thanks to Jose_X
for this link. ]
“The current licensing terms do not require this, but
the license is due to be renegotiated in 2010 and we can guess how
that will turn out, based on Jan Ozer’s
conversation with Allen Harkness, director of licensing for MPEG
LA:““When I spoke with Harkness, he stated that
the patent group hadn’t yet decided the license
provisions for internet broadcast, or even if there would be a
license, though he conceded that it would make little sense for the
patent group to forego this revenue. The only thing certain is that
the royalty provisions must be announced by January 2010 for
royalties that would be payable the following
year.—
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