All Roads Lead to ABR Royalties

Jan Ozer December 2, 2019 Articles, Blogs Leave a comment 1,013 Views

Most streaming producers adopted HLS and DASH without any concern about intellectual property issues. Though MPEG LA formed a DASH Pool in 2015 it seemed to have died a quiet death in August 2019.

Now one of the pool members, Helios Digital, is suing Crackle, Vudu, and Showtime Digital for infringing their DASH patents. As I state in my article on the implications of these suits on StreamingMedia.com, “While these suits percolate through the system, this leaves many larger DASH users wondering when they’ll see a complaint while the rest of us wonder “what happens now?”

If you’re a DASH user (or even HLS), check out the article here. It looks likely that DASH and HLS may come with a royalty obligation.

About Jan Ozer

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I help companies train new technical hires in streaming media-related positions; I also help companies optimize their codec selections and encoding stacks and evaluate new encoders and codecs. I am a contributing editor to Streaming Media Magazine, writing about codecs and encoding tools. I have written multiple authoritative books on video encoding, including Video Encoding by the Numbers: Eliminate the Guesswork from your Streaming Video (https://amzn.to/3kV6R1j) and Learn to Produce Video with FFmpeg: In Thirty Minutes or Less (https://amzn.to/3ZJih7e). I have multiple courses relating to streaming media production, all available at https://bit.ly/slc_courses. I currently work as www.netint.com as a Senior Director in Marketing.

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