On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 04:40:02PM -0500, Stewart Russell wrote > But are the licences included with the Odroid, or have they just > implemented the code without paying Fraunhofer their dues?
Depending where on the planet you are, MP3 patents may have already expired in your jurisdiction as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing_and_patent_issues This is not legal advice; see a real lawyer for that. > The initial near-complete MPEG-1 standard (parts 1, 2 and 3) was > publicly available on 6 December 1991 as ISO CD 11172. In most > countries, patents cannot be filed after prior art has been made > public, and patents expire 20 years after the initial filing date, > which can be up to 12 months later for filings in other countries. As > a result, patents required to implement MP3 expired in most countries > by December 2012, 21 years after the publication of ISO CD 11172. > > An exception is the United States, where patents filed prior to 8 > June 1995 expire 17 years after the publication date of the patent, > but application extensions make it possible for a patent to issue > much later than normally expected (see submarine patents). The > various MP3-related patents expire on dates ranging from 2007 to > 2017 in the U.S. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
