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g'day everybody, how are you today?=20

we are writing you on behalf of the Picture Coding Symposium organizing =
committee as we believe that this group has a lot to offer to the video =
coding community.=20

the Picture Coding Symposium has been a very successful platform for =
compression researchers from academia and industry for many years. =
facilitating and enabling=20
technical dialogs and discussions and information exchange is very =
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for this year, with sponsorships from google and microsoft, we have put =
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based=20
on the VP9 codec (we already have a special branch called pcs-2013) and =
one compression challenge will be HEVC based. in each competition we =
will=20
award a total of U$10000.=20

in each competition we have two subcategories: optimizations (encoder =
modifications only) and new tools (both encoder and decoder =
modifications). participants=20
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technology to both codec frameworks - if it works in both.=20

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4838120&mostPopular=3D&trk=3Dtyah
and we will of course provide updates in the months to come.=20

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This is a very interesting approach toward advancing video coding
technology.  One question I have is under what licensing conditions will
contributions be made?  The main concern, of course, would be that
someone would submit a technique that someone might claim is patented. 
Are any conditions being laid in place to protect contributions from
such a problem?  While I am not sure about the final licensing situation
of HEVC, at least VP9 is likely to be intended to be ultimately released
under a free software license, and we know the kinds of troubles that
issues surrounding software patents have caused in the past toward
adoption of technologies that would otherwise be considered free software.

In all honesty, even large corporations struggle with this problems, so
I wonder how a competition such as this can avoid this problem.  The
reason I mention this is, as stated above, any contribution or
modification to the reference encoder for VP9 will likely not be adopted
lest it be quite clear from known patent risks.

To put it bluntly, this kind of a competition, in the current legal and
patent climate, has a smell about it that seems like it will do less to
advance free/libre causes and be more advantageous to existing
stakeholders, as the deck is stacked in their favor.  Protections
addressing some of the previously-raised concerns might alleviate that
somewhat.

On 02/07/2013 12:58 PM, Axel Becker wrote:
> g'day everybody, how are you today? 
>
> we are writing you on behalf of the Picture Coding Symposium
> organizing committee as we believe that this group has a lot to offer
> to the video coding community. 
>
> the Picture Coding Symposium has been a very successful platform for
> compression researchers from academia and industry for many years.
> facilitating and enabling 
> technical dialogs and discussions and information exchange is very
> important to us. 
>
> for this year, with sponsorships from google and microsoft, we have
> put together two compression challenges: one compression challenge
> will be based 
> on the VP9 codec (we already have a special branch called pcs-2013)
> and one compression challenge will be HEVC based. in each competition
> we will 
> award a total of U$10000. 
>
> in each competition we have two subcategories: optimizations (encoder
> modifications only) and new tools (both encoder and decoder
> modifications). participants 
> can of course decide where they want to participate - or submit a
> technology to both codec frameworks - if it works in both. 
>
> if you are interested, please, have a look at http://pcs2013.org
> <http://pcs2013.org/> where you can find much more information. also
> note, that the Picture Coding Symposium 2013 has a 
> linkedin
> group http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Picture-Coding-Symposium-2013-4838120?gid=4838120&mostPopular=&trk=tyah
> and we will of course provide updates in the months to come. 
>
> only so much for today, we hope you are interested and that we get to
> meet many of you in person at the conference! 
>
> nice rgds, axel becker-lakus and antonio ortega
>
>
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g'day, how are you today?=20

Basil, thanks for your email, and below I will clarify a few things.=20

when taking part in the competition you do not grant or enter any =
licensing.  submissions to the competitions are public disclosures, =
well, like a publication.=20

you asked if there is any protection for participants submitting a =
technology from patent claims of an other party. of course, there is =
not. we obviously both can't and don't want to judge who deserves =
protection from whom. that is obviously out of the scope for an academic =
engineering conference and there are better and more competent forums to =
discuss those questions such as e.g. the USPTO round table next week.=20

as a scientific conference what we/our reviewers will do is discussing =
and studying the technical/research value of a contributions. of course, =
we take plagiarism seriously; while it is perfectly fine to use and =
build upon the work of others it must be clearly referenced.=20

overall, I think the competitions are a great and important opportunity =
to show case compression technologies and demonstrate and compare the =
technical achievements.


all the best, axel=20

On Feb 7, 2013, at 2:02 PM, Basil Mohamed Gohar =
<basilgohar@librevideo.org> wrote:

> This is a very interesting approach toward advancing video coding
> technology.  One question I have is under what licensing conditions =
will
> contributions be made?  The main concern, of course, would be that
> someone would submit a technique that someone might claim is patented.=20=

> Are any conditions being laid in place to protect contributions from
> such a problem?  While I am not sure about the final licensing =
situation
> of HEVC, at least VP9 is likely to be intended to be ultimately =
released
> under a free software license, and we know the kinds of troubles that
> issues surrounding software patents have caused in the past toward
> adoption of technologies that would otherwise be considered free =
software.
>=20
> In all honesty, even large corporations struggle with this problems, =
so
> I wonder how a competition such as this can avoid this problem.  The
> reason I mention this is, as stated above, any contribution or
> modification to the reference encoder for VP9 will likely not be =
adopted
> lest it be quite clear from known patent risks.
>=20
> To put it bluntly, this kind of a competition, in the current legal =
and
> patent climate, has a smell about it that seems like it will do less =
to
> advance free/libre causes and be more advantageous to existing
> stakeholders, as the deck is stacked in their favor.  Protections
> addressing some of the previously-raised concerns might alleviate that
> somewhat.
>=20
> On 02/07/2013 12:58 PM, Axel Becker wrote:
>> g'day everybody, how are you today?=20
>>=20
>> we are writing you on behalf of the Picture Coding Symposium
>> organizing committee as we believe that this group has a lot to offer
>> to the video coding community.=20
>>=20
>> the Picture Coding Symposium has been a very successful platform for
>> compression researchers from academia and industry for many years.
>> facilitating and enabling=20
>> technical dialogs and discussions and information exchange is very
>> important to us.=20
>>=20
>> for this year, with sponsorships from google and microsoft, we have
>> put together two compression challenges: one compression challenge
>> will be based=20
>> on the VP9 codec (we already have a special branch called pcs-2013)
>> and one compression challenge will be HEVC based. in each competition
>> we will=20
>> award a total of U$10000.=20
>>=20
>> in each competition we have two subcategories: optimizations (encoder
>> modifications only) and new tools (both encoder and decoder
>> modifications). participants=20
>> can of course decide where they want to participate - or submit a
>> technology to both codec frameworks - if it works in both.=20
>>=20
>> if you are interested, please, have a look at http://pcs2013.org
>> <http://pcs2013.org/> where you can find much more information. also
>> note, that the Picture Coding Symposium 2013 has a=20
>> linkedin
>> group =
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Picture-Coding-Symposium-2013-4838120?gid=3D=
4838120&mostPopular=3D&trk=3Dtyah
>> and we will of course provide updates in the months to come.=20
>>=20
>> only so much for today, we hope you are interested and that we get to
>> meet many of you in person at the conference!=20
>>=20
>> nice rgds, axel becker-lakus and antonio ortega
>>=20
>>=20
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Hi Timothy,

Thank you for putting this charter together.

following the W3C message back in November 2012, I'd like to propose two
additions.

The objective indicates "without the need to request a license, enter
into a business agreement, pay licensing fees or royalties, or attempt
to adhere to other onerous conditions or restrictions" but then the
Process section makes it only a preference, which is aligned with BCP
79.

> The working group shall heed the preference stated in BCP 79: "In
> general, IETF working groups prefer technologies with no known IPR
> claims or, for technologies with claims against them, an offer of
> royalty-free licensing." Although this preference cannot guarantee
> that the working group will produce an unencumbered codec, the working
> group should not proceed with publication of a codec RFC if there is
> consensus that it cannot "be widely implemented and easily distributed
> among application developers, service operators, and end users."


For the last sentence, how about:
[[
Although this preference cannot guarantee that the working group will
produce an unencumbered codec, the working group also recognizes the
request from the W3C for a royalty-free standard Web infrastructure and
should not proceed with publication of a codec RFC if there is consensus
that it cannot "be widely implemented and easily distributed among
application developers, service operators, and end users."
]]

> The working group will coordinate with the ITU-T (Study group 16) and
> ISO/IEC (JTC1/SC29 WG11), with the intent of submitting the completed
> codec RFC for co-publication by the ITU-T and ISO if the co-publishing 
> organizations find that appropriate.

Looking at the list of APIs that you mention in the Process, the work is
relevant to our HTML (HTML5, Media Source Extensions), Device APIs and
WebRTC Working Groups.

How about adding the following paragraph at the end of the collaboration
section:
[[
The working group will also coordinate with the W3C, in particular with
the HTML, Device APIs and WebRTC Working Groups, since one of the core
technical considerations is to use the resulting codec in Web APIs.
]]

Also, one minor correction:
 s/the MediaSource API/the Media Source Extensions/


Philippe



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As part of the preparations for the video-codec effort, we (Mozilla) are 
seeking feedback on a set of suitable IPR licensing terms. This is 
likely to be of interest to many of the participants on these lists, but 
the main discussion is over at the IETF discussion list: 
<http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg77204.html>.
