Archives: 2015-August-20

The increased dependency of many users, particularly on mobile devices, has initiated an unstoppable drive, supported by their increasing interaction and processing capability, to pack more functionalities in those devices....

Metadata are an important ingredient for any business strategy in the media field, both at the industry and individual company level. At the industry level this can be seen from the...

My sudden, although not unplanned, departure from DAVIC gave me the opportunity to realise some ideas I had been mulling over since some time. With MPEG and DAVIC I had...

Rights to anything are defined by the public authorities of a country in which the thing is located. Rights to a literary or artistic work are no different and are...

MP3 has shown that the combination of technology and user needs can create mass phenomena behaving like a hydra. For every head of the MP3 hydra that was cut by...

When radio and television broadcasting were introduced, it was reasonable to expect that physical forms of distribution would eventually disappear. Why should people pay for something when the same thing...

MP3 has shown how the expectations of rights holders concerning the use of digital content clash with those of billions of end users. In this chapter I would like to...

After the memorable achievement of the PD 1.0 specification, I tried hard to convince SDMI people that the group should work on developing interoperable specifications that included specific technologies beyond...

Part 1 of the MPEG-21 standard has the title “Vision, Technologies and Strategy“. It is not a standard but a Technical Report because it contains a description of part of...

By 2003 the MPEG-21 project that I had kicked off three years before in MPEG, as a result of my failure to convince SDMI to move to technology specification after...