• raldone01@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Oh man. I hope Dolby looses. Patents are way too long and benefit so few that I think they shouldn’t be justified/exist in society. Also some stuff should be decided in court to be essential technology and patents/claims should then be dissolved.

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      1 month ago

      I believe the error was in the AV1 license NOT having a “if you enforce patent-license-fees on this codec, THEN you can’t use this codec” type of coercion…

      ( I may have got the logic wrong, but there’s some kind of license that works that way, which other open codecs have used, apparently )

      Just ignoring that predators exist … provides NO protection from them.

      You have to make your license-agreement break abusers, … or you’re just helping them.

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