[vorbis] Fruanhofer patents and royalties for Streaming

[Patrick Mauritz]

On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:02:47PM -0600, Steven Bailey wrote:
> arbitration of a patent dispute.  And because of the way our wonderful
> legal system works, the claim doesn't have to be legitimate for it to go
> to court most of the time.  If they can confuse the issue sufficiently
who could they take to court? there isn't an organization or something behind
vorbis if I understand correctly.
Another question: did fraunhofer ever try to take some developers of lame (or
other mp3-encoder) to court? If they don't even tried that (which is imho
easier to prove as a patent-infringement) I don't think they try to sue
developers of a completely different encoder.

btw. haven't the iCast-laywer wrote some documentation of their work?

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