p2pnet.net News:- We recently carried OMA $1-per DRM ‘too expensive which led off with, “Several consumer electronics makers are balking at a $1 charge for anti-piracy technology suggested by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), they told Reuters.”

We’ve just had an email from an OMA PR firm which says:

“I wanted to let you know the February 25, 2005 Reuters article, ‘Expensive Anti-Piracyware Threatens Open Standard”, posted on your site contains inaccurate information about OMA.”

Since this is all about accuracy we did not, of course, post the entire article, or anything like it.

Be that as it may, “Reuters reported ‘Several consumer electronics makers balk at the $1 charge for anti-piracy technology proposed by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), they told Reuters’,” the email goes on.

“The recent announcement made by MPEG LA announced that an initial group of companies reached a tentative agreement on the terms of a patent portfolio license to be offered by MPEG LA for use of the Open Mobile Alliance DRM 1.0 specification. The subsequent reporting of the MPEG LA announcements implied that OMA is party to the proposed DRM 1.0 licensing structure and this is not the case.

“OMA is chartered for the purpose of creating technical specifications and does not participate in patent portfolios or license pricing. OMA has no relationship with MPEG LA. The agreements discussed in the article published by Reuters and, subsequently picked up by other publications, are entirely the product of MPEG LA and the companies partnering with MPEG LA. OMA does not claim the ability to determine the applicability of patent claims to the specification.

“For specifications developed by OMA, member companies are governed by OMA’s IPR policy and agree to grant a ‘non exclusive license to use any of its Essential IPR on fair, reasonable and non discriminatory terms and conditions’.”

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Reuters - Expensive Anti-Piracyware Threatens Open Standard, February 25, 2005

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