Intellectual Property Working Group (IPWG)

Status 11/15/99

The purpose of the IPWG is to facilitate and insure the continued development, availability, growth, and profitability associated with the marketing, distribution, and licensing of sounds and sound sets to the interactive audio community.

The immediate goals of the IPWG are to facilitate improvements in interactive audio and to make use and licensing term recommendations regarding reasonable and appropriate distribution of sounds and sound sets into interactive media and playback environments. The recommendations will be based on broad industry input and be consistent with the IPWG Purpose above and copyright-owner rights as intended under existing and evolving copyright laws.

The IPWG is has successfully launched and discussion is underway. Roughly 20 members have joined and the mix between Soundware vendors, game sound developers, and MI hardware vendors is looking just about right. Currently, the group is close to completion of Phase 1a of the Working Group Goals and is moving rapidly on the Phase 2a. Please click here for more information on the IPWG goals.