Comment by jorvi
20 hours ago
Yup. The Dolby/Disney vs Snapchat lawsuit is going to be the first one. So far it's only been filed.
The big question is if AOMedia is going to make good on their Mutually Assured Destruction promise of using their patent and financial war chest to to countersue into oblivion anyone trying to go after AV1 adaptors.
There situation is more intricate: the allegations are that Snapchat infringes patents through its use of the AV1 and HEVC codecs. Dolby states that it did not participate in AV1’s development and made no FRAND commitment with respect to AV1, and that its HEVC FRAND obligations apply only to decoding, not encoding.
Context: https://www.techspot.com/news/111865-dolby-sues-snap-over-vi...
I would love to live in a world where this happens. I will place big bets that it will, regrettably not happen.