What They Say
IAM had an interesting summary of the issues of the IP licensing for the VVC codec following an announcement by MPEG-LA (MPEG LA Introduces Patent Pool License for Versatile Video Coding (VVC)). The article highlights that this is the second IP pool following announcements by Access Advance last summer (Links Week Ending 20th August 2021). However, there are several companies that are not, yet, in either pool. The article highlights Huawei, LG Electronics and Fraunhofer as the most significant.
The firm said that the pricing for MPEG-LA’s VVC programme has been set at $0.20 per unit after the first 100,000 units each year and capped at $30 million annually. That rate applies to both hardware and paid software – a lower rate schedule is available to providers of free software. Twenty cents per unit is the same basic royalty charged by MPEG-LA’s HEVC pool.
What We Think
I’m not involved in the details of this kind of technology, but the sheer number of companies and organisations that have an interest in this kind of codec development is amazing. (BR)
VVC-approved and incorporated standard contribution share per company (IPlytics, February 2021)
