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Wippit Wants To Make MP3-sharing Legit
News Unlike other peer-to-peer clients, such as Napster and Scour which are accused by music labels of violating copyright, Wippit claims to have developed a way to pay a royalty fee whenever a song is copied.
[November 6, 2000, 15:30]
Microsoft's Draft Licence, Step By Step
News Companies that use Microsoft's Domain Controller protocols for their product must pay a per-user royalty fee of $1.90 for every server sold. Companies that use Global Catalog protocols must pay a per-user royalty fee of $0.15 for every server sold.
[March 18, 2005, 17:10]
Microsoft's EU Proposal Is Monstrous, Says Samba
News Jeremy Allison, Samba co-creator, said on Thursday that the royalty payments required by the licence are so high that they are unlikely to encourage competition, even from commercial vendors, as many software companies will not be able to afford...
[February 4, 2005, 17:05]
Small Webcasters Take On RIAA
News Congress passed new copyright rules in 1998 that created a new royalty structure, unknown in traditional radio, under which Internet radio stations would pay record labels and artists a fee for playing their music online.
[August 28, 2003, 12:09]
Vonage Hit By $58m Payout To Verizon
News Ultimately, the jury awarded $58m in damages using a formula that calculated Vonage pay a royalty fee of 5.5 percent on the revenue it makes for each Vonage customer line per month. The same formula could be used for the ongoing royalty fee, a...
[March 9, 2007, 7:44]
Microsoft's Antitrust Concessions Are 'pointless'
News Server interoperability information provided by Microsoft under royalty-bearing licences may contain useful information, but Samba is unable to sign up to these licences as it is a per-user fee. A firm involved in the market testing of Microsoft's...
[July 13, 2005, 17:55]
UK Site Will Be First For Legal Music Swapping
News In return, the labels will receive a royalty whenever their material is swapped, creating a legal service. But it will make it harder for the company to make deals with record labels: if a relatively small number of users sign up to Wippit and all...
[August 28, 2001, 17:20]
Small Webcasters Get Fee Reprieve
News Small Webcasters won't immediately have to pay new, potentially steep royalty fees due next week, the group responsible for collecting payments said Friday. However, the record industry-backed SoundExchange -- the group tasked with overseeing and...
[October 21, 2002, 8:58]
Royalty Fees Threaten Net Radio
News Federal copyright regulators on Thursday set new royalty rates for online radio companies, halving previously proposed fees that had drawn bitter criticism from Net companies. This created a new type of royalty, as ordinary radio stations have long...
[June 21, 2002, 12:46]
Microsoft's EU Proposal Is Monstrous, Says Samba
Talkback The royalty fee game is used to drive companies out of business and the royaltORs can always "knock-off" what they sold to you. Do beware.ch
[March 18, 2005, 11:14]
VISOCO DbExpress Driver For Sybase ASE (Win32)
Downloads Key features: High-performance, Native access to Sybase ASE, Compatibility with standard and third-party data-aware controls and components, Easy installation and distribution, Minimized driver size and use of system resources, Cross-platform...
[October 7, 2006, 21:01]
DPlot Jr
Downloads Unlike the full version of DPlot, DPlot Jr may be redistributed to end users without royalty payments or other restrictions.There's nothing to buy and no registration fee involved. DPlot Jr represents a free scaled-down version of DPlot intended...
[December 17, 2007, 10:05]
Web Services Finds Royalty-free Oasis
News Those companies intend to submit BPEL to the Oasis technical committee under royalty-free terms, which means that other companies can create products from the resulting standard without having to pay a fee to the original authors of the...
[April 30, 2003, 11:14]
CADE ActiveX Control
Downloads It includes royalty-free runtime distribution license which means you can distribute CADE Control with your application at no extra fee. Add a powerful 2D editor to your windows application. CADE ActiveX control offers extensive vector drawing...
[February 10, 2006, 21:31]
UWB Standards Rivals Offer Royalty-free Technology
News The battle between technology heavyweights over whose proposal will become a new short-range, high-speed wireless standard has heated up again, with one side now promising to offer its technology royalty-free to other companies.
[October 29, 2003, 16:05]
W3C Retreats From Royalty Policy
News But in a controversial proposal made public last autumn, the consortium debated whether to allow companies to charge royalty fees if their technologies are used in a standard. In a reference draft being published on Tuesday, the W3C has moved back...
[February 26, 2002, 14:17]
WAP Forum CEO: Eye2Eye - Part 2
News How big is the danger that Geoworks, for example, could start charging everybody that produces WAP services a royalty fee? Whether or not that license fee will hold up under scrutiny, whether that patent is sustainable, is something that's probably...
[May 31, 2000, 11:55]
Australia Stalls Bid To Patent E-commerce
News A vocal opponent of the patent, Matthew Tutaki, head of business development with Web technology firm Syntropy Systems, said technically the patent leaves every company conducting business transactions across Australia's borders over the Internet...
[July 16, 2003, 8:39]
Geoworks To Get Rich On WAP Licences
News Royalties include a $20,000 licence fee along with a 10 percent royalty fee on top of the price of a device. Wireless communications company Geoworks has announced that it owns Intellectual Property (IP) rights to parts of the international WAP...
[January 20, 2000, 13:42]
WAP Forum Blesses Geoworks WAP Claim
News Royalties include a $20,000 licence fee along with a 10 percent royalty fee on top of the price of a device. US software company Geoworks this week received official confirmation from the WAP Forum of its right to seek licence fees from companies...
[February 10, 2000, 10:36]
