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Google's video plan faces MPEG-LA patent challenge

...to counteract it. Google's video-streaming technology could be threatened by MPEG-LA's patent requests. Credit: MPEG-LA MPEG-LA, an organisation that... Read more

14 February, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

MPEG-LA video codec to stay free for end users

...standard used by technologies including YouTube and Vimeo. The MPEG Licensing Authority (MPEG-LA), which licenses the AVC portfolio, said in a press release on... Read more

26 August, 2010 by Tom Espiner

US Justice Department investigates web video patents

...arrival of a Justice Department antitrust investigation. The DoJ is looking into MPEG-LA and Google's video-encoding technology. Credit: MPEG-LA Specifically, the... Read more

4 March, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Google and Motorola Mobility: it's not just the phones

Listening in to the Google/Motorola Mobility financial analyst call after the announcement of Google's takeover of the... Read more

15 August, 2011

A few key questions about HTML5 video

Even though IE9 supports Google's WebM HTML5 video codec 'natively (for values of 'native' meaning it works and all you... Read more

11 April, 2011

MPEG-LA hit by antitrust suit over video codecs

...German software maker Nero has filed an antitrust complaint against MPEG-LA, the company that oversees licensing for the H.264 video codec... Read more

25 May, 2010 by David Meyer

Digital media group makes stand on piracy

...high-profile digital media group is taking matters into its own hands. MPEG LA (MPEG Licensing Association), a group of companies that hold patent rights... Read more

3 October, 2003 by John Borland

Apple backs MPEG-4 despite fee dispute

...of releasing the software in absence of a final licensing agreement with MPEG LA, a licensing body representing 18 patent holders that have claims on... Read more

5 June, 2002 by Joe Wilcox

VP8; some things that I wonder about

At Google IO, the Google team talked repeatedly about having done "a thorough legal analysis" into the VP8 video codec... Read more

21 May, 2010

Google unveils WebM open-source video format

...to H.264, which requires a commercial licence from patent-holder consortium MPEG-LA for its use, although personal usage is free until at least... Read more

20 May, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

Video codecs, IP and the passive aggressive voice

...from the folk from Xiph.org behind the Ogg codec, and from MPEG LA, the organisation that holds the H.264 patent pool. It tells... Read more

4 May, 2010
Sting in the tail for web's video codec search

Sting in the tail for web's video codec search

With the search for a video code for the open web mired in discord, any move towards a proprietary option could have unwelcome consequences Read more

19 March, 2010 by Richard Hillesley

Sony, Philips, Panasonic plan single Blu-ray licence

...Hitachi, Panasonic, JVC and six others); DVD 3c (Philips, Sony, Pioneer); and MPEG LA (representing encoders and decoders). Former CNET News.com editor Michael Kanellos... Read more

26 February, 2009 by Erica Ogg

Sun rises on open DRM

...interview. "The Dream DRM solution will bypass the InterTrust and ContentGuard and MPEG LA patents, so that when your child grows up they won't... Read more

22 August, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Microsoft in dock over JPEG patent

...patent to Compaq to give it a counterclaim in its lawsuit against MPEG LA. The deal fell through, however, and Forgent more closely examined its... Read more

25 April, 2005 by Dawn Kawamoto

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