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Via Licensing Announces AVC Patent Licensing Terms

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hm is vialicensing working together with mpeg-la on this?

if no, i wonder how this works, will they offer exactly the same licensing fees?
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Via Licensing Announces AVC Patent Licensing Terms

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hm is vialicensing working together with mpeg-la on this?

if no, i wonder how this works, will they offer exactly the same licensing fees?

Competition is good

When one company wants to license AVC, it can turn to MPEGla or to Via, depending on who offers the best terms and prices.

Via Licensing Announces AVC Patent Licensing Terms

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if no, i wonder how this works, will they offer exactly the same licensing fees?

Competition is good

When one company wants to license AVC, it can turn to MPEGla or to Via, depending on who offers the best terms and prices.

yeah thats what i thought first too

but than i thought that both have to be authorized by the patent holders, and for these competition is bad
so why should i, as patent holder, allow competition in the licensing market? why should i allow that multiple companies offer different licenses?
I know, that I know nothing (Socrates)

Via Licensing Announces AVC Patent Licensing Terms

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yeah thats what i thought first too

but than i thought that both have to be authorized by the patent holders, and for these competition is bad
so why should i, as patent holder, allow competition in the licensing market? why should i allow that multiple companies offer different licenses?

In last analysis, competition is good for patent holders too. Even though it reduces the prices of each sold license, it leads to broader adoption of their technology. So, they gain in volume, not in unique sales.

Via Licensing Announces AVC Patent Licensing Terms

Reply #5 –
On a related note, Apple just previewed an AVC codec at NAB, according to MacCentral. Wonder what it's CPU requirements will be - I guess it won't run on a G3

Via Licensing Announces AVC Patent Licensing Terms

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Title of the press release: "Press Release: TITLE GOES HERE"

Good to know 

Via Licensing Announces AVC Patent Licensing Terms

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yeah thats what i thought first too

but than i thought that both have to be authorized by the patent holders, and for these competition is bad
so why should i, as patent holder, allow competition in the licensing market? why should i allow that multiple companies offer different licenses?

In last analysis, competition is good for patent holders too. Even though it reduces the prices of each sold license, it leads to broader adoption of their technology. So, they gain in volume, not in unique sales.

hm ok possible and of course a fact is that the patent holders allowed two companies offering licenses
still i would have thought that avc itself is strong enough to become a widely adopted format on its own, even without that low licenses

well anyways for us consumers its surely a good thing
I know, that I know nothing (Socrates)
 

Via Licensing Announces AVC Patent Licensing Terms

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hm stux from 3ivx meant that vialicensing and mpegla cover different patents with their licenses
so it can also happen that you have to license both when wanting to create an avc implementation
I know, that I know nothing (Socrates)