jbz🧑⚖️ AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec
｢ Dolby asserts that AV1 “reuses” concepts from HEVC, for which implementation is generally understood to come with licensing and royalty fees, and that the codecs “are ‘based on the same hybrid block-based video-coding flow’ and employ nearly the same approach to dividing images into coding units… and blocks,” ｣
