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Who owns the Patent and Rights to Encyclopedia Britannica?

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Who owns the Patent and Rights to Encyclopedia Britannica?

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In January 1996 Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. was purchased by billionaire Swiss financier Jacqui Safra for $135 million. It is a privately held company. Dale Hoiberg is the publication’s current editor-in-chief. Among the members of the editorial board are such notable figures as Nobel laureate in Physics Murray Gell-Mann, biologist and Nobel laureate David Baltimore, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, economist Amartya Sen, philosopher Thomas Nagel, former Ecuadorian president Rosalía Arteaga and Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Zaha Hadid. (Safra also owns Merriam-Webster.