Just because they don't pay a fee, doesn't mean they don't have to. However, they seem to be passing on the responsibility to the end users:<p>"... Hence there is not need to obtain any patent licenses for VideoLAN software within the European Union. In other venues, please check any applicable law."
<a href="http://www.videolan.org/support/faq.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.videolan.org/support/faq.html</a><p>The VideoLan organisation may be based in the EU, but there are a number of companies in the US whose servers act as VLC mirrors. Would they be potential targets if the MPEG-LA decided to do something about VLC being unlicensed? With its widespread popularity it can hardly have gone unnoticed.