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<h3>WebM Community Cross-License Announced</h3>

<p>The WebM Project today announced an initiative to establish a
  <a href="http://www.webm-ccl.org/">Community Cross-License</a> (the
  CCL) with 17 founding members.</p>

<p>Google, Matroska and the Xiph.Org Foundation already make the
  components of WebM openly available on royalty-free terms.</p>

<p>With the establishment of the CCL, CCL members will agree to
  license patents they have that may be essential to WebM technologies
  to other members of the CCL.</p>

<p>The founding members of the initiative are:</p>

<ul>
  <li>AMD
  <li>Cisco Systems
  <li>Google Inc.
  <li>HiSilicon Technologies (for itself and on behalf of its parent, Huawei)
  <li>LG Electronics
  <li>Logitech
  <li>Matroska
  <li>MIPS Technologies
  <li>Mozilla Corporation
  <li>Opera Software
  <li>Pantech
  <li>Quanta Computer
  <li>Samsung
  <li>STMicroelectronics (for itself and its affiliate, ST-Ericsson)
  <li>Texas Instruments
  <li>Verisilicon Holdings
  <li>Xiph.Org Foundation
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<h3>About the WebM Project</h3>

<p><i>The WebM Project launched in May, 2010 with the goal of
establishing a high-quality, open video format for the web. Since
then, WebM support has shipped in millions of web browsers and devices
worldwide. To learn more,
visit <a href="http://www.webmproject.org/">webmproject.org</a>.</i></p>

<h3>About the Xiph.Org Foundation</h3>

<p><i> The Xiph.Org Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation
dedicated to open, unencumbered multimedia technology. Xiph's formats
and software level the playing field for digital media so that all
producers and artists can distribute their work for minimal cost,
without restriction, regardless of affiliation.  May contain traces of
nuts.</i></p>

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