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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. It made its suggestions for the royalty rate in February, splitting the...
[June 21, 2002, 12:46]
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]
Ruling threatens developers' wallets
News In a ruling that could force royalty fees on some developers working with Microsoft's SQL Server 7 data-management software, a Washington state judge said Microsoft could not sublicense another company's patents to SQL Server customers.
[February 21, 2003, 10:33]
RFID let off the royalties hook
News A cloud hanging over the future of radio frequency identification technology disappeared Thursday with the news that a key technical standard won't entail royalty fees. Intermec, which still maintains an RFID royalty programme, said that many...
[December 17, 2004, 8:10]
US announces global intellectual-property plan
Talkback Perhaps because they know their economy can't handle the royalty fees! Royalty payments should also be reduced over time so emerging economies can easily and cheaply take advantage of technology - even if it isn't the latest generation.
[September 23, 2005, 10:39]
Microsoft struggles to work with open source
News Last month the European Commission (EC) rejected Microsoft's proposed server interoperability licence, saying it contained a number of serious flaws including unjustifiably high royalty fees and the exclusion of open source vendors.
[April 5, 2005, 18:20]
Ogg Vorbis plays with hardware support
News Software and hardware companies who make MP3 player and encoder software, by contrast, must pay royalty fees to the format's patent holders for each piece of software they distribute. Ogg Vorbis, an audio format created to provide a royalty-free...
[September 4, 2002, 13:31]
Asia-Pacific firms rally against e-commerce patent
News DE Technologies has already sent letters to firms in New Zealand -- where the patent has been granted -- using e-commerce to conduct international trade and have demanded royalty fees of up to $25,000 (£15,719).
[July 18, 2003, 9:50]
Plans for Linux game console fizzle
News The Indrema console was to use commonly available software, including the Linux operating system, and would have imposed no royalty fees on game creators, encouraging hundreds of small developers to write titles for the console.
[April 12, 2001, 11:07]
Nokia pleads for flat-rate 3G licensing
News Capping royalty fees will likely decrease the cost of the ensuing cell phone and network equipment. Microprocessor design patent holders charge even higher royalty fees than 5 percent. The proposed cap would bring in lower intellectual property...
[May 9, 2002, 9:27]
3D graphics world shaken by patent claims
News OpenGL owes its current success to an unrestrictive licensing system, which allows developers to write to the API without a licence, and which carries no royalty fees. While it is as yet unclear how Microsoft intends to pursue its claims, the...
[July 11, 2002, 16:14]
Group sets MPEG-4 licensing standards
News MPEG LA, a group of patent holders governing MPEG-4, on Monday finalised licensing terms for the media delivery standard, bowing to market pressure for manageable royalty rates. Apple, which bases its multimedia player on the standard, rejected the...
[July 16, 2002, 12:19]
Small Webcasters put faith in latest bill
News A trio of US federal lawmakers introduced a bill on Friday that would eliminate potentially steep royalty payments for small Internet radio stations, many of which have said the fees would force them to close.
[July 29, 2002, 11:28]
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]
Royalties killed the Web radio star
News The first commercial radio station to stream its programming live via the Web has quit, making good on threats that it would have to pull its Webcasts in the face of royalty fees. Smaller, independent Web radio stations have long protested against...
[July 22, 2002, 10:36]
An overview of the IBM productivity tools
White Papers Creating documents that support the OpenDocument Format allows organizations to access, use and maintain their documents without concern about end of life uncertainties or ongoing software licensing and royalty fees.
[October 18, 2007, 9:25]
Government ignores royalty rights for online artists
News The Department for Culture, Media and Sport and actors' union Equity have however both confirmed that the issue of paying artists royalty fees for the use of their work will not be discussed. The UK government plans to place the cream of Britain's...
[January 19, 2001, 11:23]
REALbasic Syntax Highlighter Module
Downloads There are no royalty fees involved. The Syntax Highlighter Module operates against any EditField in your REALbasic Application. As you type, your words are matched against a text file containing keywords, words that you wish to have highlighted in...
[April 18, 2009, 19:06]
REALbasic Syntax Highlighter Module
Downloads There are no royalty fees involved. The Syntax Highlighter Module operates against any EditField in your REALbasic Application. As you type, your words are matched against a text file containing keywords, words that you wish to have highlighted in...
[April 18, 2009, 17:25]
ARM shares fall on royalty fears
News But ARM said royalty revenues, which are considered key to the company's long-term success, had fallen by 6 percent to £6.4m, or 15 percent of total revenues, even though unit shipments increased. The company licenses designs for microprocessor...
[April 15, 2002, 13:29]
