It intends to become the leading wholesaler for online music, licensing its service to other firms seeking to sell subscriptions, and leaving the packaging and pricing to them.
Comcast has signed licensing agreements for the service with Disney, NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros. and Cookie Jr Entertainment. the service will initially be offered over the Web and on Apple iPhones and iPads.
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Icstis plans to introduce a licensing regime for the phone service providers that will make it easier and clearer to define which companies are responsible for ensuring that consumers entering competitions get fair treatment.
She built FastPDF with open source software, so no licensing of maintenance fees, and hosted the service with an outside firm.
Mr. Heins said the company is looking at a number of options to replace that revenue, from licensing the company's popular BlackBerry Messenger service, to leveraging advanced security and business-focused offerings.
Last June, Gladding-Hearn, a SE Massachusetts boatbuilder, signed a licensing agreement with Incat Crowther for an 18 meter service vessel.
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Sony has developed "Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity" in partnership with Omnifone, a leading provider of cloud-based unlimited music services, with Omnifone contracted by Sony to coordinate content licensing as well as development and delivery of the service, leveraging its existing expertise in the music industry.
In recent years, several smaller licensing clearinghouses claim to offer a more efficient and robust service to clients.
When the regent of Gianyar in Bali introduced a "one-stop service" in the early 1990s for business licensing and permits, local tax revenues jumped by 70%.
Digital licensing refers to the licensing fee that the media companies charge for letting streaming service providers such as Netflix, Amazon and Hulu stream their content over the internet.
It has also broached the idea of licensing content directly from media companies for some sort of subscription-TV service, resembling the packages offered now by cable operators, but the talks have been "exploratory, " according to people familiar with the matter.
The recently launched service has lots of new audio features like Scan and Match technology and licensing deals with a number of labels.
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The new MobileMe file-storage and music service could be available as early as June, depending on the progress of licensing talks that are in their preliminary stages, the people familiar with the situation said.
As the number of cloud service providers has expanded, major ISVs (independent software vendors) have created new licensing models or adjusted existing ones to provide additional flexibility.
Motorola was one of the first companies to develop patents for GSM phone service and has used them to barter with other vendors for years, keeping its licensing costs to a minimum.
While Google had originally planned a more robust version of the concept, issues with licensing and label-imposed restrictions had reportedly forced the company to choose between a reduced version of the service or none at all.
His Amazon Prime video streaming service is a direct competitor to Netflix (in the release, the company announced it reached a licensing agreement with EPIX giving their users access to movies like The Avengers, Iron Man 2, and the Hunger Games, meaning the cable channel ended its exclusivity with Netflix) and, to a certain extent, the Apple iTunes store.
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