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Originally Posted by fjtorres
A truly new and superior algorithm for digitally encoding audio would be patentable, not copyrightable.
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It may or may not be patentable, depending on the jurisdiction. "Pure" software patents are almost never granted by the UK Patent Office, for example. In order to be patentable in the UK, a computer program has to be part of a solution to a "technical problem". A data compression algorithm used as part of a more efficient system for transmitting audio from one place to another probably would be patentable, for example, but the algorithm in isolation wouldn't be.