Intertrust is offering its licenses for mobile DRM cheaper than that of MPEG LA, reports The Register, in a bid to cut out other licence holders which are part of the MPEG LA patent pool. That’s the Register’s take anyway — Intertrust is a little bit more circumspect, saying that each operator had to decide whether the patents owned by Intertrust were enough for their purposes.
As for the prices: “Either an active subscriber domain — which means a list of related devices belonging to the same individual or family — can pay 0.09 euro per year, which amounts to 12 US cents; or an operator can pay 0.015 euro per subscriber it has for 2007 rising gently to 0.030 euro (24 cents) in 2016 per subscriber per year, calculated against the total subscriber population of a service provider or network operator…There are two things to note here. Firstly that this price, for the core elements of technology that are required for OMA, is far less than the entire MPEG LA license and as such it is supposed to tempt those that feel they can manage without the REL and the Matsushita patents. Secondly it does away with the up front cost per device.”
Related stories:
–Europe Fights Patent Problems
–MPEG LA Aims At DMB Standard
–Tech Firms See Common DRM Standard Soon
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