Cleary Gottlieb represented Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) on May 23, 2023, in which the DG Competition closed its preliminary investigation of the royalty-free licensing policy of AOMedia, without further action.
AOMedia is a leading developer of open, royalty-free online media technologies and develops standards spanning video, audio, still images, and immersive technologies. The investigation concerned reciprocal royalty-free licensing, which forms a foundational element for standards in the worldwide web. AOMedia’s board-level, founding members include Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Google, Huawei, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, NVIDIA, Samsung Electronics, and Tencent.
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