Apple "requests" protest of MPEG-4 policy

Craig Cadwallader (of Primal Image Entertainment) writes: " I am attending QuickTimeLive. Regarding QT6 and MPEG-4 licensing, not mentioned in the press release was Phil Schiller's direct appeal to developers and content providers to email MPEG-LA to protest their current onerous video licensing terms that now hold up the release of QuickTime 6. Quoting the release: "Apple agrees with paying a reasonable royalty for including MPEG-4 codecs in QuickTime, but does not believe that MPEG-4 can be successful in the marketplace if content owners must also pay royalties in order to deliver their content using MPEG-4."