Shawn Lin wrote:

> Maybe there will be a rebirth of MD equipment when Sony's license
> expires.  I don't know if it's true, but I read somewhere that after
> 10-years, audio format licenses expire and then companies don't have to
> pay license fees anymore.  I read that it was the reason why CD didn't
> really start gaining in popularity at a high rate until 10-years after
> its introduction in '81 or '82.  True, or not?
>

Generally Patents last for 17 years so I don't think that is correct.

Larry

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