Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increases
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Existing licensees are grandfathered.

Existing licensees are grandfathered.

  • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    2 days ago

    I thought h.264 patents are expired

    Edit: it was patented in 2003, so 20 year period is gone already

    • Caveman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      2 days ago

      Wikipedia covers it nicely:

      Since the first version of the standard was completed in May 2003 (22 years ago) and the most commonly used profile (the High profile) was completed in June 2004[citation needed] (21 years ago), some of the relevant patents are expired by now,[75] while others are still in force in jurisdictions around the world and one of the US patents in the MPEG LA H.264 pool (granted in 2016) lasts at least until November 2030.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding?wprov=sfla1