Le ven 28/02/2003 à 13:26, Yves Degoyon a écrit :
ps : i'll be using mp3 as long as most video formats use it and all my collection of files is in mp3 format. there's not really a patent on mp3 despite all what's be said on slashnet.
Sorry for being so off-topic, but there really are patents on the mp3 format. Honest.
Please read: http://www.mp3-tech.org/patents.html http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/legal/ http://www.mp3licensing.com/
As an exercice, read also: http://mpegla.com/
Then take a big breath and read: http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.html http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/patents.html http://perens.com/Articles/Patents.html http://www.freepatents.org/
-- Marc