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A Big List of MP3 Patents (and supposed expiration dates)

February 26th, 2007

So, by now, large portions of the internet is abuzz with the Federal jury decision that Microsoft has been violating some of Alcatel-Lucent's patents on the MP3 file format, which ahas been the backbone of the digital music revolutions and without which iTunes and the iPod would not have been possible. I couldn't help but note the timing of the ruling, since I had been been researching MP3 patents ...

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