Archives: 2015-August-20

Patents And Standards

Johannes Gutenberg had the great idea of developing a system to print books using movable characters. He had not just the idea, which had been floating around for a long...
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An MPEG Meeting

Starting from the idea of compressing digital video to fit it in the low throughput of 1.4 Mbit/s of a CD, MPEG had to develop newer areas of expertise to...
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Life In ISO

A free translation of the fake Latin proverb “Homo homini lupus, femina feminae lupior, sacerdos sacerdoti lupissimus” could go like this: man behaves like a wolf toward another man, a...
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Craft, Intellect And Art

In primitive societies every able individual was capable of making for himself all that was needed for a living: bows, arrows, shoes, tents, pottery, etc. From early on the social...
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Fixating Works

Advancement in society – and ingenuity in developing appropriate technologies – created written works. If one takes the remaining samples of old written works, it is easy to imagine that...
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Rights

Being able to own “rights” to something is a fundamental concept of living beings: ants own the “right” to suck aphids, but they are “obliged” to feed them, if they...
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Protecting Rights

The MPEG-1 standard was an offspring of its age. Just as CD Audio had no content protection provision  – something the music industry had come to regret – the MPEG-1...
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Computer Programming

Electronic computers have been a great invention indeed and the progress of the hardware that has enabled the building of machines that get smaller and smaller year after year while,...
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Operating System Abstraction

My encounter with IT as a (business) tool for the AV world happened towards the end of the MPEG-2 development and was greatly enhanced by my participation in the DAVIC...
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