Interesting question. Obviously the people behind the LAME MP3 encoder cannot extend you any patent rights on MP3 encoding, you would have to go to MPEG-LA for

Interesting question. Obviously the people behind the LAME MP3 encoder cannot extend you any patent rights on MP3 encoding, you would have to go to MPEG-LA for that. On the other hand, if you take that MP3 encoder and embed it in a device you start selling, you'll most certainly put yourself in the chain of liability, no?