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Royalty-free Options Reach OASIS
News An influential Web services standards group revised its patent policy to accommodate but not require royalty-free licences, signalling incremental gains for open source developers. I'm pleased that royalty-free is at least an option, but would be...
[February 11, 2005, 9:55]
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]
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]
Royalty Dispute Confuses CD Copy-protection
News A dispute over royalty rights on copy-protected CDs and other types of music discs is helping stall the release of some new music technology, and could result in record labels owing tens of millions of dollars in back payments to music publishers.
[January 13, 2004, 11:40]
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]
W3C Bows To Royalty-free Pressure
News It now states that all members who participate in a proposed standard must agree to license any relevant patents on a royalty-free basis. The real tension there was that the vast majority of the working group supports the proposition that what's...
[November 15, 2002, 9:24]
IBM EbXML Patent Plan Royalty-free
News An IBM executive last fall said the company has historically worked in both royalty-free and RAND environments, and chooses to use one or the other on a case-by-case basis, depending on the technologies.
[April 19, 2002, 14:49]
Government Ignores Royalty Rights For Online Artists
News The UK government plans to place the cream of Britain's arts on an interactive Web site, Culture Online, have failed to address the royalty rights of artists who would be involved. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport and actors' union...
[January 19, 2001, 11:23]
Rambus Reveals Royalty Rates
News Rambus executives disclosed the royalty rates it is seeking from memory manufacturers, and the numbers are higher than expected. Testifying on Wednesday in the company's patent infringement trial against German chipmaker Infineon Technologies...
[May 3, 2001, 9:20]
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]
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. Investors fear UK chip maker ARM Holdings may not...
[April 15, 2002, 13:29]
UK ISPs Reassured Over 'royalty Tariff' Claim
News If the royalty tariff is implemented it is expected to result in Internet users paying significantly more for a slower Internet service. As a critical court case gets underway in Canada this week in which a songwriters association will attempt to...
[December 2, 2003, 12:40]
UK ISPs Reassured Over 'royalty Tariff' Claim
Talkback Surely they should be called SoCAMP of Canada (Society of Composers, Authors & Music Publishers)
[December 2, 2003, 17:54]
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]
Tatung Quits NC Alliance
News Tatung's reason is the $500,000 royalty demanded by Oracle and lack of confidence in the future of the much-hyped technology. PCDN Comment: Putting the hat out for a cool half million royalty is certainly a strange way to kick off a challenge to...
[August 23, 1996, 11:28]
Rambus' Patent Warfare
News Infineon Technologies has become the latest target of US-based Rambus, which has been seeking to exact licensing and royalty payments for the manufacture of common PC memory technologies. Rambus has already reached royalty and licensing settlements...
[August 14, 2000, 17:02]
Australia Stalls Bid To Patent E-commerce
News A controversial patent claim that could force Australian businesses to pay millions in royalty fees to conduct business over the Internet has been caught at the eleventh hour. A vocal opponent of the patent, Matthew Tutaki, head of business...
[July 16, 2003, 8:39]
Web Standards Body Finalises Anti-patent Policy
News The Web's leading standards body on Tuesday finalised a patent policy banning the use of most royalty-bearing technology in its technical recommendations, an issue that sparked a clash between open-source advocates and software makers.
[May 22, 2003, 7:46]
W3C Rejigs Image Format
News A key Internet standards group issued this week a revised recommendation for a royalty-free image format. Once LZW patent-owner Unisys announced its intention to seek royalties for the use of GIF graphics in software applications, free-software...
[November 12, 2003, 12:20]
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]
