The MPEG Open Access Application Format
John R. Smith,
Computing Now,
Nov 03, 2009
According to the editor's introduction, "The lack of a unified format for digital-content metadata and associated license information is impeding the open access to and dissemination of digital content. The MPEG Open Access Application Format is a new standard from MPEG that standardizes the packaging of digital content and associated rights information into an application format to facilitate open access and interoperable exchange." Renato Ianella writes, in an email, "the full article [1] does not mention any of the patent issues around MPEG-21." Also, it's not clear to me that such a complex infrastructure should be required for the distribution of open contents. This is a proposal from a world where the default is 'closed' and you must go to extraordinary (and expensive) lengths to make something open.
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