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Case of stolen MP3s
Or not as it turns out. A U.S. district judge reversed a $1.5 billion verdict against Microsoft in a patent dispute over MP3 technology. Believe it or not, before every other person had an iPod (or one of those other MP3 players) the music format did not exist. Alcatel co-owns the copyright to the MP3 encoding and claims that Microsoft started using it without paying. Microsoft says it did pay up — not to Alcatel, but to a German research organization which co-owns the patent.
Posted on August 7, 2007 7:03 AM PT | Permalink
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