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Old 22nd January 2025, 18:17   #1  |  Link
kurkosdr
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Access Advance patent pool formed for HEVC, VVC, VP9, and AV1 video streaming

Access Advance has formed a patent pool that claims to have patents essential for VP9 and AV1 video streaming (among HEVC and VVC).

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Access Advance Announces Video Distribution Patent Pool in Response to Market Demand
Pool Covers Internet Streaming of the HEVC, VVC, AV1, and VP9 Video Codecs in a Single License


Responding to growing market demand for an industry solution for codec licensing in the video distribution market, Access Advance LLC (“Advance”) is pleased to announce the launch of its Video Distribution Patent (“VDP”) Pool.

The VDP Pool will build upon the success of Advance’s existing HEVC and VVC Advance Patent Pools, which are supported by a substantial majority of video codec implementers and patent owners. It will provide a single one-stop-shop license, covering internet streaming with all four of the most recently developed video codecs (i.e., HEVC, VVC, AV1, and VP9) available today, with fixed tiered pricing scaled to the size of the video distributor’s business. This structure provides simplicity and predictability to internet video distributors, allowing them to choose which codec(s) to use based on technical and business merits rather than royalty costs or the need to negotiate multiple licenses.

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Full announcement here:
https://accessadvance.com/2025/01/16...market-demand/

So, the real question is: Will the patent holders in that patent pool go after Google (YouTube) demanding video distribution royalties ("content fees")? Or will they happily collect from any companies that sign up but avoid suing anyone like the patent holders in the Sisvel pools have done so far?

(note: the Sisvel patent pool only concerns encoder and decoder royalties, not video distribution royalties, but still, Google uses VP9 and AV1 encoders in their YouTube service and sells or gives away products with VP9 and AV1 decoders, so the patent holders in the Sisvel pool could sue Google they wanted or anyone else who distributes VP9 or AV1 decoders or encoders really)

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