Recently Dolby has sued over AV1 patent infringement. I wonder if that motivated the H.264 alliance to raise fees. The article mentions H.265 fee increase but not the recent Dolby suit against SNAP. The gist of that suit is Dolby claims AV1 violates their patents and they didn’t agree to allow AV1 to use those patents, so it doesn’t matter that AV1 itself is an open standard as it’s still a violation.
Recently Dolby has sued over AV1 patent infringement. I wonder if that motivated the H.264 alliance to raise fees. The article mentions H.265 fee increase but not the recent Dolby suit against SNAP. The gist of that suit is Dolby claims AV1 violates their patents and they didn’t agree to allow AV1 to use those patents, so it doesn’t matter that AV1 itself is an open standard as it’s still a violation.