The table below summarizes the commitments under the W3C Patent Policy from current and former Participants for this specification.
Per section 4.2 of the W3C Patent Policy a Participant may resign from the Working Group within 90 days after the publication of the first public Working Draft and be excused from all licensing commitments arising out of Working Group participation.
Non-Members may also make licensing commitments for this specification; please see the instructions for non-Members. Note: W3C takes no position regarding the validity or scope of licensing commitments from non-Members; non-Members are not bound by the W3C Member Agreement.
| Name | Licensing Commitment Status | Licensing commitments for |
|---|---|---|
| Image Annotation on the Semantic Web | ||
| National ICT Australia (NICTA) Ltd [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Adobe Systems Inc. [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Agfa-Gevaert N. V. [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| AOL LLC [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Asemantics S.R.L. [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Athens Information Technology (AIT) [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Boeing Company [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Bologna, University of [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Brandsoft, Inc. [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Bristol, University of [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Cerebra [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Chinese Academy of Sciences [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| CNR--Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Creative Commons [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| DERI Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Deutsche Telekom AG [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| France Telecom [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Fraunhofer Gesellschaft [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Free University of Bozen-Bolzano [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| FSTC (Financial Services Technology Consortium) [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Fundación CTIC [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Hewlett Packard Company [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| IBM Corporation [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Image Video & Multimedia Systems Laboratory of National Technical University of Athens (IVML-NTUA) [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Institut fuer wissenschaftliche Information e.V. [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications (IIT), NCSR [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| International Webmasters Association / HTML Writers Guild (IWA-HWG) [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Internet Association Japan [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Language and Computing, NV [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab at the University of Maryland [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| McDonald Bradley, Inc. [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Mondeca [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Ontopia AS [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Sandpiper Software, Inc. [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Society for Technical Communication (STC) [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Southampton, University of [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Stanford University [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| STFC (Science & Technology Facilities Council) [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| TopQuadrant [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Tucana Technologies, Inc. [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| University of Aberdeen, Computing Science [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| University of Manchester [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (USC / ISI) [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Vodafone [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Vrije Universiteit [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| webMethods, Inc. [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Dan Brickley [Inv. Exp.] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Patrick Hayes [Inv. Exp.] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Elisa Kendall [Inv. Exp.] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Chris Menzel [Inv. Exp.] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
| Ralph Swick [Team] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 October 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2006-03-22 |
Note: All actions carried out through this system are reported by email to the relevant parties; copies are sent to w3c-archive@w3.org (Member-readable archive).