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Re:YouTube no longer supports 4K video playback in Safari by lern_too_spel on Sunday January 15, 2017 @10:48AM (#13404479)
No. Here's the license. https://www.webmproject.org/license/additional/

You only lose the right to use WebM parents if you file litigation against any user of WebM (not just Google) over any implementation of WebM. You can sue Google about anything else and not suffer WebM license consequences.

You're probably thinking of Facebook's open source patent rider. https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS

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Re:YouTube no longer supports 4K video playback in Safari by kuschku on Sunday January 15, 2017 @02:59PM (#13406028)
Indeed, turns out, I was wrong on that. Now I wonder, if i own MPEG patents, could I sue Google for misuse of them, while licensing WebM? There’s quite some overlap with them.

And yes, Facebook and Tesla’s patent licenses are completely ridiculous.

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Re:YouTube no longer supports 4K video playback in Safari by lern_too_spel on Monday January 16, 2017 @04:42PM (#13413281)
You can sue Google about misuse of MPEG patents and keep your protections under the WebM license, so long as you do not sue Google or anybody else about WebM's patents.
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