The law passed and starting in 1998 Canadians were required to have a license to own firearms and register their weapons with the government.
Every state requires its own license to practice, even though doctors trained in New York have essentially the same training as their colleagues in California.
FORBES: Scrap Outdated Regulations to Unleash Real Innovation In Health Care
So they decided to set up their own channel and license their movies to themselves.
The legal issue is that regulators may decide that Groupon, which takes a cut of sales, has been selling alcohol without a license, fine it and perhaps force the company to get its own liquor license.
Rosetta's technology allows Merck to print its own chips, or to license them from Agilent (nyse: A - news - people ), which sells Rosetta's expression arrays to other clients.
If you own a license to Word, Excel, or Windows , Microsoft asks you to buy insurance against the possibility of them introducing a new major release.
FORBES: Microsoft Software Assurance: Insurance? Or Extortion?
Afterward, people wanted to license his software and this led to the start of his own business and an entrepreneurial journey that would bring him around the world and ultimately to MIT where he met is Locu co-founders.
However, you must own or have license to each ROM-set that you wish to use in MAME.
Once British politicians started questioning Ofcom, the communications regulator, about its powers to disqualify media owners who were not "fit and proper persons" to own a television license, alarm bells would have started ringing at News Corp. headquarters.
Dicks says IBM had been negotiating with the Chinese government for two years to license the Shenzhen remanufacturing plant and he expects competitors to eventually establish their own facilities.
FORBES: IBM Opens China's First Factory To Refurbish Old Computers, Tapping A $2 Billion Market
Doctors are free to prescribe outside a product license on their own responsibility.
It will help Microsoft transitioning itself into the new business model they are trying to establish, which is making their own hardware products like Apple, but at the same time license their softwares to OEMs. The professional and hardcore users will go for the OEM PCs like they always do, but for the rest of the casual users, they will just get an xbox.
FORBES: Microsoft's Next Xbox Is For Your Living Room, But Isn't For Gamers
Both ARM and Imagination license their designs to others but do not make their own chips.
For example, some states require companies generating their own energy to apply for a utility license.
FORBES: Facebook Commits to Green Energy -- But Can It Deliver?
But right now, some of this looks like a move to possibly cut out Fair Isaac, and so that they can just sell their own score without having to pay that license fee.
And earlier this month, Hewlett Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) signed a deal with startup Riverbed Technology to license its application acceleration technology for use in its own products.
Borrowing an abbreviation from restaurants without a liquor license where Bring Your Own Bottle (BYOB) is a route to saving on the drinks bill, the move has been christened Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), of course, in the abbreviation-plagued tech world.
FORBES: Linking Personal Compute Devices To Corporate Systems -- Securely
Now they're talking about selling their own score, which they wouldn't have to license from Fair Isaac.
Arizona has its own form and an online system to register when renewing a driver's license.
YouTube was able to build a business based largely on content it did not own, did not license, and did not know whether or not was infringing.
FORBES: How the Second Circuit's Decision in Viacom May Change the Web
The studios used to license their movies to Showtime but in 2008 they failed to reach a renewal agreement and instead went out on their own.
Dolby says the software is specially tuned for each device, and it's up to OEMs to license the technology, so don't hold your breath for an app you can download on your own.
应用推荐