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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Patent Fights Are a Legacy of MP3’s Tangled Origins

New York Times: "Microsoft says it was doing the right thing: paying a German rights holder $16 million to license the MP3 audio format, the foundation of the digital music boom. Then an American jury ruled that Microsoft had failed to pay another MP3 patent holder, and slapped it with a $1.52 billion judgment."

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