[vorbis] Vorbis newbie questions

[Craig Dickson]

Daniel Brockman wrote:

> Are you in your journalistic research able to
> verify the oggies' assertion that Fraunhofer
> http://www.fraunhofer.de/ owns the patents on MP3 and
> demands royalties?

"The oggies' assertion"?

A Google (http://www.google.com) search on "Fraunhofer patent mp3 royalty"
brings up, on the first page, the following links, among others:

http://www.mp3licensing.com/

http://www.mp3.com/news/095.html?lang=eng

>From these, you can determine quite easily that Fraunhofer does claim to
hold patents covering MP3, and that they demand royalties for licenses to
use their patented MP3 technology. The mp3licensing.com site includes a long
list of their relevant patents. Based on this list, you can look up the
individual patents by number here:

http://www.delphion.com/patquery

Why are you asking a journalist to do trivial research that you could do for
yourself in a few minutes?

Craig


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