Latest news with #PeterMoller
The Standard
3 days ago
- General
- The Standard
South Korea to end private adoptions after landmark probe
(FILES) This picture taken in Seoul on June 11, 2025 shows Peter Moller, KoRoot's co-representative, posing for a photo in front of pictures of Korea-born adopted children after an interview with AFP at KoRoot, a Seoul-based organisation that helps Korean adoptees search for their records and birth families.(Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)
Business Wire
02-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Access Advance Welcomes Global Technology Leaders as Licensees and Licensors to New Video Distribution Patent Pool
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Access Advance LLC ("Advance") today announced the inaugural roster of licensees and licensors for its Video Distribution Patent ("VDP") Pool, marking a significant milestone in the program's rapid market adoption since its January announcement. The participation of major global companies heavily involved in video codec technology demonstrates strong industry support for the comprehensive licensing solution covering HEVC, VVC, VP9, and AV1 codecs. The licensees' participation provides immediate access to the wide-ranging patent portfolio while benefiting from the fixed tiered pricing structure designed to scale with business size. The VDP Pool has successfully attracted a group of licensees/licensors including ByteDance, Kuaishou, NTT Docomo, and Tencent. This represents the beginning of what Access Advance expects to be widespread adoption among content streaming providers seeking simplified codec licensing. The licensees' participation provides immediate access to the wide-ranging patent portfolio while benefiting from the fixed tiered pricing structure designed to scale with business size. "We're pleased to welcome ByteDance, Kuaishou, NTT Docomo and Tencent as our first VDP Pool licensees/licensors. Their commitment to the VDP program demonstrates the practical value of our one-stop-shop approach and the fact that the VDP program has successfully struck a balance between patent owners and implementers," said Peter Moller, CEO of Access Advance. "This milestone shows that the VDP Pool is delivering on its promise to provide simplicity and predictability for online video distributors, allowing them to focus on innovation and content delivery rather than complex patent negotiations." The VDP Pool has also confirmed a large group of licensors representing a strong and substantial portfolio of standard essential patents for video codecs, positioning the pool to provide extensive intellectual property coverage for video streaming services. This initial group of patent owners includes the following internationally recognized technology leaders whose innovations are fundamental to modern video streaming infrastructure: BlackBerry Limited ByteDance Dolby International AB Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute Ewha University-Industry Collaboration Foundation Hangzhou Boyun Technology Co., Ltd. HFI Innovation Inc. Hyundai Motor Company IBEX PT Holdings IDEAHUB Inc. Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd. JVCKENWOOD Corporation Kia Corporation Koninklijke Philips N.V. KT Corporation Kuaishou Technology Kwangwoon University, Industry-Academic Collaboration Foundation LX Semicon Co., Ltd Mitsubishi Electric Corporation NEC Corporation NTT DOCOMO, Inc. OP Solutions, LLC SK Telecom Co., Ltd. Tencent America LLC University-Industry Cooperation Foundation of Korea Aerospace University University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University V-Nova Limited XRIS Corporation Additional Licensor to be disclosed shortly Additional Licensor to be disclosed shortly "The strong participation from major industry players and patent holders validates our approach and demonstrates that the VDP program is the preferred solution to the market's need for a unified licensing solution that balances the interest of patent owners and implementers," Moller added. "These licensors bring not only essential patent portfolios but also the credibility and scale necessary to make the VDP Pool the preferred licensing destination for streaming video providers globally." The announcement comes as the industry increasingly seeks to license video codec patents directly to content streaming providers, who have benefited significantly from the use of patented, efficient video codecs. Access Advance's approach aims to provide broad access to patented technology while promoting continued innovation in video codec technologies. Access Advance is in the process of finalizing agreements with several more licensors and licensees. More announcements will be made in the coming days and weeks. In addition, the VDP Pool rate structure has been posted to the Access Advance website ( The company encourages all internet video distributors and patent owners to learn more about the program, including available incentives and discounts, by contacting us at licensing@ About Access Advance: Access Advance LLC is an independent licensing administrator company formed to lead the development, administration, and management of patent pools for licensing essential patents of the most important video codec technologies. Access Advance provides a transparent and efficient licensing mechanism for both patent owners and patent implementers. Access Advance manages and administers the HEVC Advance Patent Pool for licensing over 25,500 patents essential to H.265/HEVC technology and the VVC Advance Patent Pool for licensing essential patents to VVC/H.266 technology. The company's Multi-Codec Bridging Agreement provides eligible licensees with a single discounted royalty rate structure for licensees participating in both the HEVC Advance and VVC Advance pools. In addition, Access Advance offers the VDP Pool, a comprehensive licensing solution for video streaming services covering HEVC, VVC, VP9, and AV1 codecs. For more information, please visit:
Business Wire
02-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Access Advance 欢迎全球技术领导者加入成为新视频分发专利池的许可方和被许可方
波士顿--(BUSINESS WIRE)--(美国商业资讯)-- Access Advance LLC （'Advance'） 今天宣布其视频分发专利 （'VDP'） 池的首批许可方和被许可方的名单，这是该专利池自今年 1 月宣布推出以来迅速获得市场认可的一个重要里程碑。这些在视频编解码技术领域占有重要地位的大型跨国公司的参与，表明了业界对涵盖 HEVC、VVC、VP9 和 AV1 编解码器的全面许可解决方案的强力支持。 VDP 专利池已成功吸引了包括NTT Docomo、快手科技、腾讯和字节跳动在内的许可方/被许可方。通过为流媒体服务商提供他们所寻求的更简单的编解码技术许可方案，Access Advance期望其VDP专利池将得到广泛采纳，这些许可方和被许可方的加入，标志着这一历程已经开始。被许可方参与VDP专利池，能够即时获得一个覆盖广泛的专利组合的许可，同时受益于根据业务规模调整的固定分级定价结构。 '我们很高兴地欢迎NTT Docomo、快手科技、腾讯和字节跳动成为我们的许可方/被许可方。他们加入 VDP专利池是对我们一站式许可的实际价值的见证，同时也证明了VDP专利池成功地在专利权人和实施人之间取得平衡'Access Advance 首席执行官 Peter Moller 说。'这一里程碑表明，VDP专利池正在履行其承诺，为流媒体服务商提供简便和可预测的许可方案，使他们能够专注于创新和内容交付，而不是复杂的专利谈判。 VDP 专利池还宣布了首批许可方，这些许可方代表着强大且丰富的视频编解码器标准必要专利组合，使得VDP专利池能够为流媒体服务商提供广泛的知识产权覆盖。首批许可方包括以下国际知名的技术领袖，他们的创新对现代视频流媒体的基础设施至关重要： BlackBerry Limited ByteDance Dolby International AB Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute Ewha University-Industry Collaboration Foundation Hangzhou Boyun Technology Co., Ltd. HFI Innovation Inc. Hyundai Motor Company IBEX PT Holdings IDEAHUB Inc. Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd. JVCKENWOOD Corporation Kia Corporation Koninklijke Philips N.V. KT Corporation Kuaishou Technology Kwangwoon University, Industry-Academic Collaboration Foundation LX Semicon Co., Ltd Mitsubishi Electric Corporation NEC Corporation NTT Docomo, Inc. OP Solutions, LLC SK Telecom Co., Ltd. Tencent America LLC University-Industry Cooperation Foundation of Korea Aerospace University University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University V-Nova Limited XRIS Corporation Additional licensor to be disclosed shortly Additional licensor to be disclosed shortly '这些在业内占有重要地位的公司和专利权人的积极参与是对我们的理念的认可，也表明VDP专利池为市场提供了一个优选方案，满足了市场对平衡专利权人和实施人利益的统一许可解决方案的需求，'Moller补充说。'这些许可方不仅带来了必要的专利组合，还带来了必要的可信度和规模，使VDP池成为全球流媒体服务商的优选许可方案。 Access Advance宣布首批许可方和被许可方，适逢业界在日益寻求向流媒体服务商直接许可视频编解码专利，而这些服务商已从使用被专利覆盖的高效视频编解码器中获益匪浅。Access Advance 的方案旨在更大范围地普及专利技术的使用，同时促进视频编解码技术的持续创新。 Access Advance 正在与更多许可方和被许可方商讨最终协议。未来几天和几周将发布更多公告。此外，VDP 专利池的费率结构已发布到 Access Advance VDP 网站（ licensing@ 联系我们，了解有关该计划的更多信息，包括可用的激励和折扣。 关于 Access Advance： Access Advance LLC 是一家独立的许可管理公司，旨在领导专利池的开发和管理，以许可最重要的基于标准的视频编解码器技术的基本专利。Access Advance 为专利所有者和专利实施者提供了透明、高效的许可机制。 Access Advance 管理 HEVC Advance 专利池，用于许可 H.265/HEVC 技术必需的 25500 多项专利，以及 VVC Advance 专利池，用于许可 VVC/H.266 技术必需的专利。公司的多编解码器桥接协议为参与 HEVC Advance 和 VVC Advance 池的被许可方提供单一版税费率结构。此外，Access Advance 还提供 VDP 池，这是一个全面的视频流服务许可解决方案，涵盖 HEVC、VVC、VP9 和 AV1 编解码器。如需了解更多信息，请访问： 。
Express Tribune
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
BTS fans rally for Korean adoptees
K-pop megaband BTS is back from military service, and their international fandom — long known for its progressive activism — is celebrating by rallying behind a cause: adoptees from South Korea. Now Asia's fourth-largest economy and a global cultural powerhouse, the idols' native South Korea remains one of the biggest exporters of adopted babies in the world, having sent more than 140,000 children overseas between 1955 and 1999. The country only recently acknowledged, after years of activism by adult adoptees, that the government was responsible for abuse in some such adoptions of local children, including record fabrication and inadequate consent from birth parents. The septet's fandom, dubbed ARMY, is known for backing causes like Black Lives Matter and ARMY4Palestine, and launched the #ReuniteWithBTS fundraising project last week to support Korean adoptees seeking to reconnect with or learn about their birth families, which can be a painful and legally tricky process. Almost all of BTS members have completed South Korea's mandatory military service, required of all men due to the country's military tensions with North Korea. "We are celebrating both the reunion of BTS and ARMY, and BTS members being able to reunite with their own family and friends," the BTS fan group behind the initiative, One In An ARMY, told AFP. "Helping international adoptees reunite with their birth country, culture, customs and families seemed like the perfect cause to support during this time." The fans are supporting KoRoot, a Seoul-based organisation that helps Korean adoptees search for their records and birth families and which played a key role in pushing for the government to recognise adoption-related abuses. Peter Moller, KoRoot's co-representative, told AFP it was "very touching" that the BTS fans had taken up the cause, even though "they're not even adoptees themselves". For many adoptees, seeing Korean stars in mainstream media has been a way for them to find "comfort, joy, and a sense of pride" in the roots that they were cut off from, KoRoot's leader Kim Do-hyun added. Soft power BTS, who have discussed anti-Asian hate crimes at the White House and spoken candidly about mental health, have long been considered one of the best examples of South Korea's soft power reach. For years, Korean adoptees — many of whom were adopted by white families globally — have advocated for their rights and spoken out about encountering racism in their host countries. Some adoptees, such as the high-profile case of Adam Crapser, were later deported to South Korea as adults because their American parents never secured their US citizenship. Many international adoptees feel their immigration experience has been "fraught", Keung Yoon Bae, a Korean studies professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, told AFP. Some adoptees have found that, like Crapser, their guardians failed to complete the necessary paperwork to make them legal, she said. This is becoming a particular problem under US President Donald Trump, who is pushing a sweeping crackdown on purported illegal immigrants. Bae said it was possible that "'accidentally illegal' adoptee immigrants may fall further through the cracks, and their deeply unfortunate circumstances left unremedied". The whale Reunions between Korean adoptees and their birth families can be emotionally complex, as Kara Bos — who grew up in the United States — experienced firsthand when she met her biological father through a landmark paternity lawsuit. During their encounter in Seoul in 2020, he refused to remove his hat, sunglasses, or mask, declined to look at her childhood photos and offered no information about her mother. He died around six months later. "The journey of birth family searching is very lonely, difficult, and costly. Many adoptees do not even have the means to return to their birth country let alone fund a family search," Bos, 44, told AFP. To have BTS fans rally around adoptees and provide help with this complex process is "a wonderful opportunity", she said. For Malene Vestergaard, a 42-year-old Korean adoptee and BTS fan in Denmark, the group's song "Whalien 52", which references a whale species whose calls go unheard by others, deeply resonated with her. "I personally sometimes feel like that whale. Being amongst my peers, but they will never be able to truly understand what my adoption has done to me," she told AFP. "For me, finding BTS at the same time I started looking for my birth family and the truth about my adoption and my falsified papers, was such a comfort." Vestergaard said the grief woven into her adoption would never go away, but that "BTS and their lyrics have made it easier to reconcile with that truth".
Kuwait Times
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Kuwait Times
Soft power: BTS fans rally behind Korean international adoptees
K-pop megaband BTS is back from military service, and their international fandom - long known for its progressive activism - is celebrating by rallying behind a cause: adoptees from South Korea. Now Asia's fourth-largest economy and a global cultural powerhouse, the idols' native South Korea remains one of the biggest exporters of adopted babies in the world, having sent more than 140,000 children overseas between 1955 and 1999. The country only recently acknowledged, after years of activism by adult adoptees, that the government was responsible for abuse in some such adoptions of local children, including record fabrication and inadequate consent from birth parents. The septet's fandom, dubbed ARMY, is known for backing causes like Black Lives Matter and ARMY4Palestine, and launched the #ReuniteWithBTS fundraising project last week to support Korean adoptees seeking to reconnect with or learn about their birth families, which can be a painful and legally tricky process. Peter Moller, KoRoot's co-representative, pointing to a screen showing the #ReuniteWithBTS fundraising campaign on Facebook. Almost all of BTS members have completed South Korea's mandatory military service, required of all men due to the country's military tensions with North Korea. 'We are celebrating both the reunion of BTS and ARMY, and BTS members being able to reunite with their own family and friends,' the BTS fan group behind the initiative, One In An ARMY, told AFP. 'Helping international adoptees reunite with their birth country, culture, customs and families seemed like the perfect cause to support during this time.' The fans are supporting KoRoot, a Seoul-based organization that helps Korean adoptees search for their records and birth families and which played a key role in pushing for the government to recognize adoption-related abuses. Peter Moller, KoRoot's co-representative, told AFP it was 'very touching' that the BTS fans had taken up the cause, even though 'they're not even adoptees themselves'. For many adoptees, seeing Korean stars in mainstream media has been a way for them to find 'comfort, joy, and a sense of pride' in the roots that they were cut off from, KoRoot's leader Kim Do-hyun added. Peter Moller, KoRoot's co-representative, posing for a photo after an interview with AFP at KoRoot.--AFP photos Soft power BTS, who have discussed anti-Asian hate crimes at the White House and spoken candidly about mental health, have long been considered one of the best examples of South Korea's soft power reach. For years, Korean adoptees - many of whom were adopted by white families globally - have advocated for their rights and spoken out about encountering racism in their host countries. Some adoptees, such as the high-profile case of Adam Crapser, were later deported to South Korea as adults because their American parents never secured their US citizenship. Many international adoptees feel their immigration experience has been 'fraught', Keung Yoon Bae, a Korean studies professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, told AFP. Some adoptees have found that, like Crapser, their guardians failed to complete the necessary paperwork to make them legal, she said. This is becoming a particular problem under US President Donald Trump, who is pushing a sweeping crackdown on purported illegal immigrants. Bae said it was possible that ''accidentally illegal' adoptee immigrants may fall further through the cracks, and their deeply unfortunate circumstances left unremedied'. A general view of the sign of KoRoot, a Seoul-based organization that helps Korean adoptees search for their records and birth families, at its house in Seoul. The whale Reunions between Korean adoptees and their birth families can be emotionally complex, as Kara Bos - who grew up in the United States - experienced firsthand when she met her biological father through a landmark paternity lawsuit. During their encounter in Seoul in 2020, he refused to remove his hat, sunglasses, or mask, declined to look at her childhood photos and offered no information about her mother. He died around six months later. 'The journey of birth family searching is very lonely, difficult, and costly. Many adoptees do not even have the means to return to their birth country let alone fund a family search,' Bos, 44, told AFP. To have BTS fans rally around adoptees and provide help with this complex process is 'a wonderful opportunity', she said. For Malene Vestergaard, a 42-year-old Korean adoptee and BTS fan in Denmark, the group's song 'Whalien 52', which references a whale species whose calls go unheard by others, deeply resonated with her. 'I personally sometimes feel like that whale. Being amongst my peers, but they will never be able to truly understand what my adoption has done to me,' she told AFP. 'For me, finding BTS at the same time I started looking for my birth family and the truth about my adoption and my falsified papers, was such a comfort.' Vestergaard said the grief woven into her adoption would never go away, but that 'BTS and their lyrics have made it easier to reconcile with that truth'. - AFP
