Anyone can set up a patent pool claiming to be for anything, and hope fools will buy it. This scam has been done to previous VPx codecs too. And anyone can sue

Anyone can set up a patent pool claiming to be for anything, and hope fools will buy it. This scam has been done to previous VPx codecs too. And anyone can sue anybody for anything. Until there's a judgement it doesn't mean much. But there is an alliance around AV1 patents, and it has strong backers to fight off the trolls: https://aomedia.org/membership/members/ https://aomedia.org/membership/members/