Newsfactor details possible solutions for the MPEG-4 Licensing issue:
"Among the measures under consideration are (a) reasonable annual limitations on certain royalties (in addition to those for decoders and encoders) in order to provide more cost predictability; and (b) threshold levels below which certain use-based royalties would not be charged in order to minimize the impact of the use-based royalty on small users," Horn said.












































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