MPEG LA, LLC is a firm based in Denver, Colorado that licenses patent pools covering essential patents required[1][2] for use of the MPEG-2,[3] MPEG-4 Visual (Part 2), IEEE 1394, VC-1, ATSC, MVC, MPEG-2 Systems, AVC/H.264 and HEVC standards.
MPEG LA is not affiliated with MPEG, the Moving Picture Experts Group.
Doesn't that mean MPEG LA is affiliated with MPEG?
MPEG creates the MPEG codec standards, MPEG LA is a separate organisation that exists to sell patent licences required to actually implement the MPEG standards. They don't particularly need to be affiliated.
MPEG LA, however, would like you to believe that, seeing as LA is (or at least, was) an abbreviation of Licensing Authority -- something they clearly aren't.
MPEG LA, LLC is a firm based in Denver, Colorado that licenses patent pools covering essential patents required[1][2] for use of the MPEG-2,[3] MPEG-4 Visual (Part 2), IEEE 1394, VC-1, ATSC, MVC, MPEG-2 Systems, AVC/H.264 and HEVC standards.
MPEG LA is not affiliated with MPEG, the Moving Picture Experts Group.
Doesn't that mean MPEG LA is affiliated with MPEG?