Editing High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding (section)

===Licensing and patents===
Companies holding patents for HE-AAC have formed a [[patent pool]] administered by Via Licensing Corporation<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.via-corp.com/us/en/licensing.html |title=Licensing Programs |access-date=2017-05-11 |author=Via Licensing |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170513100143/http://www.via-corp.com/us/en/licensing.html |archive-date=2017-05-13 }}</ref> to provide a single point of license for product makers.

Patent licenses are required for end-product companies that make hardware or software products that include HE-AAC encoders and/or decoders.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.via-corp.com/us/en/licensing/aac/faq.html |title=AAC Licensing FAQ |access-date=2017-05-11 |author=Via Licensing |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170522200114/http://www.via-corp.com/us/en/licensing/aac/faq.html |archive-date=2017-05-22 }}</ref> Unlike the MP3 format before April 23, 2017,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/ |title=Thomson/FhG MP3 Licensing |author=Thomson |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170117091012/http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/ |archive-date=2017-01-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref> content owners are not required to pay license fees to distribute content in HE-AAC.