February 1999: A record company called SubPop was the first to distribute music tracks in the MP3 format.All developers of MP3 encoders or rippers and decoders/players must now pay a licensing fee to Fraunhofer, however, no licensing fees are required to simply use an MP3 player. September 1998: Fraunhofer began enforcing their patent rights.November 26, 1996: A United States patent for MP3 was issued.1994: MPEG-2 was developed and published a year later.1992: Fraunhofer's and Dieter Seitzer’s audio coding algorithm was integrated into MPEG-1.
April 1989: Fraunhofer received a German patent for MP3.January 1988: Moving Picture Experts Group or MPEG was established as a subcommittee of the International Standards Organization/International Electrotechnical Commission or ISO/IEC.1987: The Fraunhofer Institut in Germany began research code-named EUREKA project EU147, Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB).
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