<story><title>Apple, Google, Facebook&apos;s AV1 standards group under EU antitrust investigation</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-eu-antitrust-regulators-probing-tech-group-aoms-video-licensing-policy-2022-07-07/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nightpool</author><text>If the EU finds royalty-free patent ceasefire clauses to be anti-competitive, then the entire foundation of standards-based interoperability for the web is at stake. These schemes underlie everything—even something as simple as addEventListener(&amp;#x27;touchstart&amp;#x27;). And the entire realm of software encoding schemes has been poisoned by patent royalty schemes for far too long. I cannot think of anything worse for the state of media encoding on the web than regulator intervention to maintain that status quo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IfOnlyYouKnew</author><text>This is the nutgraph:&lt;p&gt;“ The Commission has information that AOM and its members may be imposing licensing terms (mandatory royalty-free cross licensing) on innovators that were not a part of AOM at the time of the creation of the AV1 technical, but whose patents are deemed essential to (its) technical specifications,&amp;quot; the paper said.&lt;p&gt;This concern is certainly valid, i. e. it is logically consistent. I would tend to agree with the sentiment that standardization is net-positive, but I know next to nothing about the  commercial aspects happening behind the scenes of these processes.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple, Google, Facebook&apos;s AV1 standards group under EU antitrust investigation</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-eu-antitrust-regulators-probing-tech-group-aoms-video-licensing-policy-2022-07-07/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nightpool</author><text>If the EU finds royalty-free patent ceasefire clauses to be anti-competitive, then the entire foundation of standards-based interoperability for the web is at stake. These schemes underlie everything—even something as simple as addEventListener(&amp;#x27;touchstart&amp;#x27;). And the entire realm of software encoding schemes has been poisoned by patent royalty schemes for far too long. I cannot think of anything worse for the state of media encoding on the web than regulator intervention to maintain that status quo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yalogin</author><text>I was confused reading the article, seeing your comment makes me at ease that I read the article correctly. I too don’t get why the EU needs to intervene when they are making things better.</text></comment>