<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Tom O'Reilly" <<a href="mailto:TOreilly@mpegla.com">TOreilly@mpegla.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">May 22, 2010 6:31:50 PM CDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Dave Johnson" <<a href="mailto:davefilms.us@gmail.com">davefilms.us@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Info-web" <<a href="mailto:Info-web@mpegla.com">Info-web@mpegla.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>RE: VP8</b><br></span></div><br><div>Dear Mr. Johnson,<br><br>Thank you for writing. We appreciate hearing from you and the<br>opportunity to address your question.<br><br>MPEG LA provides pool licenses for many different video codecs such as<br>AVC/H.264, MPEG-2, VC-1 and MPEG-4 Part 2. We do not advocate for one<br>over another; rather, we provide one-stop licenses for the convenience<br>of video providers and users who make choices among them. <br><br>Therefore, our announcement of interest in providing a license for VP8<br>is not a matter of protecting our revenue stream from other codecs (many<br>of which are used in parallel). To the extent patent rights held by<br>many patent holders are necessary for VP8, they need to be dealt with<br>whether or not MPEG LA offers a license. Our interest is in pooling<br>them so they may be made available for the convenience of users on the<br>same terms under a single license as an alternative to the present<br>fragmented way that necessitates individual negotiations with many<br>different patent holders. If we succeed, what it can mean is that<br>there will be a more efficient way for the market to access VP8 patent<br>rights, and that translates into broader adoption of VP8 for video<br>providers and consumers like you who choose to use it in providing and<br>receiving video services.<br><br>If you have additional questions, please let me know. I will be glad to<br>answer them.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Tom O'Reilly<br>Manager Research and Public Relations<br>MPEG LA, LLC<br>Tel: (303) 200-1710<br>Email: <a href="mailto:toreilly@mpegla.com">toreilly@mpegla.com</a><br>Web: <a href="http://www.mpegla.com">www.mpegla.com</a><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Dave Johnson [mailto:davefilms.us@gmail.com] <br>Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 11:55 PM<br>To: Info-web<br>Subject: VP8<br><br>Just how would MPEG LA benefit me? How can MPEG LA be good for me? webM<br>with VP8 is a threat to your income apparently. <br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>