[throawayonthe]

i'll be surprised if anything comes of it because like... https://aomedia.org/about/members/ if the legal departments of all these corporations haven't made them drop av1 in all these years there's probably not much there?

[zamadatix]

I'd like to think so as well (well, I don't know they'd necessarilymake them "drop" it as much as license those particular patents/accept the risk they may have to pay in the future) but on the other hand history has shown VP8 had a lot of companies behind it too before Google signed to sublicense patents from the MPEG LA & other holders for it.

[ZeroGravitas]

VP8 was developed by a small company and bought and open sourced by Google on a fairly short timescale because the proprietary codec group had tried to start exerting their control.

So it's not accurate to say that had a lot of companies behind it. That usage came later and even then it was mostly in odd corners of the video industry.

[zamadatix]

Who originally developed the codec is only half the story. In 2011, 17 companies created a CCL agreement around VP8+WebM. In 2013 Google signed the sub-licensing agreement to keep it free. Any of the legal teams at those 17 companies had the chance to catch it before then. That there were a lot of legal team reviews by the big tech companies involved did not catch everything. The system isn't designed in a way to make that a solid guarantee like it should be.