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Yes, of course. Sisvel is already selling a license for their AV1 patent pool: https://www.sisvel.com/licensing-programs/audio-and-video-coding-decoding/video-c
by gardaani 4y ago
Yes, of course. Sisvel is already selling a license for their AV1 patent pool: https://www.sisvel.com/licensing-programs/audio-and-video-coding-decoding/video-coding-platform/license-terms/av1-license-terms https://www.sisvel.com/licensing-programs/audio-and-video-co...
AOMedia fights against this with its defense program: "Established the AOMedia patent defense program to help protect AV1 ecosystem participants in the event of patent claims" https://aomedia.org/press%20releases/the-alliance-for-open-media-statement/ https://aomedia.org/press%20releases/the-alliance-for-open-m...
- arlcode 4y agoDo we know how successful their claim is. I've not followed that too much. It makes sense to go after hardware vebdors, because that is where the money is and shaking down open source software users is a lot of work and bad press.
- tadfisher 4y agoI've yet to hear of them suing Intel, who recently shipped hardware AV1 encoding in their GPUs. So either Intel is paying up or the pool doesn't want to poke the bear.