Policy Observatory
The fight for patent-unencumbered media codecs is nearly won
Mon 8 Jan 2018, 11:04
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.