Not according to http://www.tunequest.org/a-big-list-of-mp3-patents/20070226/ … . They could be wrong of course. But so could anyone else.
*whispers into the air* …the final patents on MP3 technology expired today…
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they have the dates wrong on the last two, as far as I can tell. Their Priority Dates don’t match that page. Not a lawyer though!
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true, US5924060 was filed Mar 20th, not Aug 29th and US5703999 was filed in 1996, but granted in 1997 (it's 20y after filing, right?)
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it’s 20 years after the Priority Date, generally, which is not always the filing date.
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in those cases the priority dates were several years earlier (92 and 86), so in that case.. even better :)
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It depends on whether the patent was filed for before June 8, 1995. If it is then it's 17 years after issue, so a bit more tricky.
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Both patents in question were filed after. They're done.
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Someone should make a patents expiring soon twitter bot
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Great, there goes my afternoon.
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Should have something I won't be likely to abandon done tomorrow sometime.
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Let me know, I'll totally retweet that.
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Yeah, and then it broke and I have been both busy and lazy. I will get it going again shortly.
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No worries, let me know when I should make good on my promise to retweet it. :)
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On the other hand, who needs MP3 anymore now, now that there's Vorbis and most storage is big enough for FLACs
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the fundamental problem with software patents in a single tweet.
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I was just noting how an older music video on YouTube had been re-encoded with Opus, Vorbis is so last decade!
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Personally, I prefer middle-out multimedia compression algorithms
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Almost! I don't know how relevant the final two are for most people though: https://www.tunequest.org/a-big-list-of-mp3-patents/20070226/ …
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he has the dates wrong on the last two.
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Oh damn, you're right – I never even bothered to check!
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