During the Google I/O developer conference last week in San Francisco, the search giant launched WebM, a new project that aims to deliver a royalty-free multimedia format for the Web. A key component in WebM is VP8, a high-performance video codec that Google obtained in its recent acquisition of video technology company On2.
Google is making VP8's underlying intellectual property freely available under permissive terms in order to promote adoption of the format, but there are still some unanswered questions about its legal status. In a statement given to the Wall Street Journal, a representative of MPEG LA recently suggested that its members and other parties may hold patents on some of the technology that is used in VP8.
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