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Comment Re:Why are lawsuits allowed against end users? (Score 4, Informative) 42

From the legal doc, it appears that Dolby is suing snap for not signing a licensing agreement for other codecs it is using, and not primarily AV1.

IANAL and I only flipped through the case, but the claims are about specific patents that dolby thinks are used in codecs that snapchat is using on their site alongside AV1, which are covered by some large license pool Dolby is a member of, which snapchat refused to sign, despite being "invited" several times over. Perhaps there is a side to the case where methods covered by the referenced patents are claimed to be used in AV1 as well, but I didn't get to it, it is 91 pages long.

Hopefully, if there are such claims, the consortium behind AV1 will step in and defend it against that part of the claims. For the rest it is very likely the job of snapchat to show it doesn't need a license.

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