Archives: 2015-August-20

MPEG-7 Development

The Life in ISO page tells about my efforts in overcoming the many obstacles on the road to establishing Subcommittee 29 (SC 29), because of the “lupissimus” nature of the...
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Machines Begin To Understand The World

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....
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The Impact Of MPEG-7

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...
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A World Of Peers

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...
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Technology Challenging Rights

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 can...
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Opening Content Protection

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 is cut by...
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Technology, Society and Law

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...
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The World After MP3

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...
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MPEG-21 Development

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...
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Inside MPEG-21

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...
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