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Old 18th September 2018, 18:09   #984  |  Link
IgorC
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Sorry for offtopic. Last one and probably will get it somewhere else.
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Originally Posted by iwod View Post
Any links? The only thing I got was from Wikimedia

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166025

Which state LC-AAC to be patents free in 2018! This is big news.
It's difficult to say. I'm not a lawyer. I just saw some patent related estimations here http://www.ecodis.de/audio.htm
Especially when laws change per country. Also there are decoding and encoding related patents. MP3 decoding related patents have expried in 2015 but encoder patents in 2017. https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/group/pak...docs/legal.pdf

It might be the case that patents of LC-AAC have already expired.
Will investigate.
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