Potential Patent Claims Mount Against Google’s WebM

Jan Ozer July 30, 2011 Blogs Leave a comment 634 Views

In a story for Streaming Media Magazine, I asked patent licensing authority MPEG-LA whether any claims had emerged against the VP8 video codec used Google’s WebM. As you recall, MPEG-LA announced a call for patents “essential” to VP8 in March 2011.

Apparently, there have been 12 patents found to be essential to Google’s WebM technology by MPEG-LA’s patent experts. The next step might be the formation of a patent pool which could then ask Google and Google’s licensees for royalties on VP8/WebM usage, though MPEG-LA did not state that a patent group was being formed.

It’s an incomplete picture for the time being, a moving picture. For the complete story, such that is, and Google’s response to all this, click here.

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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