MPEG LA Announces Call for Patents Essential to VP8 Video Codec

Posted Feb 12, 2011 11:38 UTC (Sat) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: MPEG LA Announces Call for Patents Essential to VP8 Video Codec by xav
Parent article: MPEG LA Announces Call for Patents Essential to VP8 Video Codec

PNG has been a HUGE succes: nowadays nobody fears GIF lawsuits anymore.

Might not that have more to do with the LZW patent expiring in 2003?

Since 2003, PNG has supplanted GIF, but it only really took over after the GIF patent expired.