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		antninja on March 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nokia discloses their patents on VP8/WebM It's quite probable that those companies are pushing for MPEG4 because they paid millions to licence it and they don't want to pay for another codec. There's no way to know if the promised patent-free codecs are really patent-free.

taligent on March 23, 2013 [–]

From that list Apple, Microsoft and Sony are licensors.

Hence are very much key members of MPEG-LA.

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensors.aspx

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