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- Page made in a rush; there is probably a better place for this info.
For info on the royalty-free patent licence offered by MPEG LA, see MPEG LA#Royalty-free_.22Internet_Broadcast.22_licence.
When will the patents expire? 2028?
- http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-July/020737.html
- (link contains a list of the patents claimed by MPEG LA, with expiry dates for each.)
The two links in that mail are now broken, but these may be the documents:
- http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/M4V/Documents/m4v-att1.pdf ("patent list" for "MPEG-4 Visuals")
- http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/documents/avc-att1.pdf (document related to "AVC Patent Licensing Program", but the exact relation isn't specified)
Related pages on ESP Wiki
External links
- Information about the H.264 patent license, 30 Apr 2010, FSF
