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MPEG LA could be one step closer to forming a patent pool to use against Google’s WebM open-source video format.
The H.264 licensing group revealed in an email interview with Streaming Media that it has identified 12 companies with patents that it claims are essential to the WebM standard, which could be used in a legal battle designed to thwart adoption of the competing video format.
WebM is based on the VP8 codec that Google acquired as part of its purchase of On2 Technologies in early 2010. Google released WebM with a royalty-free, open-source license a few months later, and since then it has been busy building support for the format by layering it into various Google products.
The H.264 licensing group revealed in an email interview with Streaming Media that it has identified 12 companies with patents that it claims are essential to the WebM standard, which could be used in a legal battle designed to thwart adoption of the competing video format.
WebM is based on the VP8 codec that Google acquired as part of its purchase of On2 Technologies in early 2010. Google released WebM with a royalty-free, open-source license a few months later, and since then it has been busy building support for the format by layering it into various Google products.
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