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Re:Life inside MPEG by mschuster91 on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @04:01AM (#18492632)
> MPEG-LA members built the algorithms, at great expense.

At least MP3 was created partially with taxpayer money as a cooperation between the the Fraunhofer Institute and the Friedrich Alexander University at Nuremberg. The Fraunhofer Institute is largely funded by commercial research, but ~30% of its funding come from the German federal state and the individual German states.

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