"In a February 2 notification sent to relevant customers, the cloud giant says it is updating its Service Terms to specify it does not have "defense or payment obligations for third-party patent claims against you related to use of these services for audio/video encoding, decoding, or transcoding." The services in question are AWS Elemental MediaLive, AWS Elemental MediaConvert, Amazon Interactive Video Service, Chime SDK, Amazon GameLift Streams, and Amazon Kinesis Video Services."
"Explaining the reason for this decision, AWS says some patent holders of media codec technology are "increasingly refusing to license service providers like AWS," or else do not offer reasonable terms that will protect customers. Some patent holders are demanding license payments "that far exceed the value of their patented technology," according to AWS, in amounts that are "not feasible for it to pay" without incurring price increases for all customers of the affected services."
AWS has updated Service Terms to disclaim defense or payment obligations for third-party patent claims related to audio/video encoding, decoding, or transcoding for specified media services. The affected services include AWS Elemental MediaLive, MediaConvert, Amazon Interactive Video Service, Chime SDK, GameLift Streams, and Kinesis Video Services. AWS cites patent holders increasingly refusing to license service providers or offering unreasonable terms and demanding license fees that exceed the value of their technology. AWS says paying such fees would be infeasible without raising prices. AWS pursued licensing discussions for some codecs but, lacking satisfactory agreements, continues support while assigning legal liability to customers.
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