The fight for patent-unencumbered media codecs is nearly won

After Apple joining the Alliance for Open Media, now all the most powerful tech companies — Google, Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla, Facebook, Amazon, Intel, AMD, ARM, Nvidia — plus some content providers like Netflix and Hulu, are on now in the Alliance to keep media codec suite AV1 patent-free.

Country: Global

Domains: IPR

Stakeholder: Industry

Tags: codecs, patents, alliance, open media, IPR

Posted on Monday 8 January 2018

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