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In article , Mike Rivers wrote:
On 5/15/2017 6:19 AM, John Williamson wrote:
Technicolor and Fraunhofer have announced they will no longer be issuing
licences to use their patented software and hardware to create mp3
files, and will be withdrawing support for it.
That's because the patent expired. The technology is available for
anyone to use at no cost. They're moving on to making money off other
things.
Right, which is the whole point of the AAC encoder, which is really based on
the same perceptual model as MP3 with a slightly different data format. It
exists in order to fill the financial void being created by the loss of the
mp3 patent.
But even though the mp3 patent is going away, the mp3 trademark remains, and
if fraunhofer is smart they are going to try to protect that trademark.
Refusing to issue new licenses for the encoder, though, might cut into profits
for the AAC encoder but it also is going to hurt the value of the mp3 trademark
which is likely worth more.
It is an interesting world.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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