The MPEG Licensing Association—the group responsible for handling the necessary patent licensing for use of MPEG video codec standards—has announced that it will not charge royalties for AVC/H.

Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt have had a field day on Google's WebM codec over the weekend. It may have had a worse debut than Rand Paul. (As with the word Spam, the acronym FUD also appears on ...

In my blog entry on the Google WebM/OSI topic, I asked the following question: For better or worse, an OSI-approved license has become the de facto requirement for vendors calling themselves or ...

MPEG LA has allayed fears that it could start charging royalties for online video encoded in H.264 after 2015 by extending the moratorium on fees for free Internet video indefinitely.