[GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 2 with new chip

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 04:40:02PM -0500, Stewart Russell wrote

> But are the licences included with the Odroid, or have they just
> implemented the code without paying Fraunhofer their dues?

  Depending where on the planet you are, MP3 patents may have already
expired in your jurisdiction as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing_and_patent_issues
This is not legal advice; see a real lawyer for that.

> The initial near-complete MPEG-1 standard (parts 1, 2 and 3) was
> publicly available on 6 December 1991 as ISO CD 11172.  In most
> countries, patents cannot be filed after prior art has been made
> public, and patents expire 20 years after the initial filing date,
> which can be up to 12 months later for filings in other countries. As
> a result, patents required to implement MP3 expired in most countries
> by December 2012, 21 years after the publication of ISO CD 11172.
>
> An exception is the United States, where patents filed prior to 8
> June 1995 expire 17 years after the publication date of the patent,
> but application extensions make it possible for a patent to issue
> much later than normally expected (see submarine patents). The
> various MP3-related patents expire on dates ranging from 2007 to
> 2017 in the U.S.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes at waltdnes.org>