MPEG LA begins search for WebM/VP8 patents

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 12, 2011 2:43 PM EDT
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MPEG LA, the organisation which acts as a patent pool for many royalty bearing standards, including H.264 and MPEG2, has begun a search for patents which are considered "essential" to Google's open source and royalty free WebM/VP8 video codec. The move by MPEG LA is the first step in possibly creating a patent pool which would be able to demand royalties for the use of WebM/VP8.

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