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| Authored by: Ian Al on Sunday, January 06 2013 @ 04:03 AM EST |
The ITU ensured that all the standard essential patents for H264 (one of its
huge number of world standards) had been provided with a FRAND declaration
before MPEG LA had even put out the first call for patents for its US patents
pool.
I think you may be confusing H264 with the Google VP8 standard. As
AllThingsDigital wrote:
Indeed, Larry Horn, CEO of MPEG LA, the
consortium that controls the AVC/H.264 video standard, tells me that the group
is already looking at creating a patent pool license for VP8....For what it’s
worth, Google seems to believe that it has done its due diligence here and has
the necessary patent clearance for VP8. Said Google product manager Mike
Jazayeri: “We have done a pretty thorough analysis of VP8 and On2 Technologies
(VP8’s developer) prior to the acquisition and since then, and we are very
confident with the technology and that’s why we’re open
sourcing.”
MPEG LA don't own the standard essential patents in
H264 any more than they own the standard essential patents in VP8. They waited
until the H264 standard got global traction and then put out a call for patents
that could be used to extort money for what was supposed to be a free or a low
cost standard. They wanted to do the same thing for VP8.
Google have no
reason to get an MPEG LA licence for VP8. They are just publishing the standard
and giving away the technology for free. They have ensured that MPEG LA are
unable to create an extortionate patent pool for VP8 in an attempt to monetise
something that should be free.
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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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