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Licensing Delay Complicates Decision Between Open Source and Proprietary Video Players

Posted by Regina McCombs at 1:16 PM on Feb. 5, 2010

In at least a short-term boon for HTML5 proponents, the consortium of groups that own the patents for the H.264 video-encoding codec announced Thursday that it will not seek royalties for another five years on videos that use the codec and are free to end users.

via Poynter Online – E-Media Tidbits.

Written by Barbara K. Iverson

February 5th, 2010 at 1:51 pm

Posted in Disruptive Tech

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