The Alliance for Open Media (AOM), which includes members such as Alphabet’s Google, Amazon, Apple and Meta, has been cleared of any potential fines by the European Commission. The Commission had been investigating the AOM’s video licensing policy since last year, but decided to close the investigation for priority reasons.
AOM welcomed the move, stating that royalty-free licensing is essential for technological standards and the open internet. The AV1 software, which is used by Netflix, YouTube, Google Chrome and Firefox, is an open, royalty-free video coding software designed for video transmission over the internet.
Other AOM members include Netflix, Broadcom, Cisco, Tencent, Intel, Huawei, Mozilla, Samsung and Nvidia. Companies face fines of up to 10% of their global turnover for breaching EU antitrust rules.