This is the nutgraph: “ The Commission has information that AOM and its members may be imposing licensing terms (mandatory royalty-free cross licensing) on inn

This is the nutgraph: “ The Commission has information that AOM and its members may be imposing licensing terms (mandatory royalty-free cross licensing) on innovators that were not a part of AOM at the time of the creation of the AV1 technical, but whose patents are deemed essential to (its) technical specifications," the paper said. This concern is certainly valid, i. e. it is logically consistent. I would tend to agree with the sentiment that standardization is net-positive, but I know next to nothing about the commercial aspects happening behind the scenes of these processes.