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Future Meetings What those articles did not tell
you is how the end of licencing
Below is a list of dates the for will actually affect you, and your
2017. MP3s.

31st May 2017

Back in April 2017, the founda-
28th June 2017 tion which owns the patent for the
MP3 codec announced that

23rd August 2017 “Technicolor's mp3 licensing pro-
gram for certain mp3 related pa-
tents and software of Technicolor
20th September 2017
and Fraunhofer IIS has been ter-
minated.”
18th October 2017
In fact, other companies also
claim to have the patent for MP3,
15th November 2017
but all have now expired.

13th December 2017

What does this mean?

Essentially, it means products re-
Is MP3 Dead ? leased in the future won’t support
MP3 files. The announcement
from Faunhofer admits “most state

You might have read in the press -of-the-art media services such as
that MP3 is ‘dead’ and the future streaming or TV and radio broad-
of digital audio lies in other for- casting use modern ISO-MPEG
mats. codecs such as the AAC family or
in the future MPEG-H. Those can