Google and Mozilla use the VP8 (royalty free) codec, whereas Microsoft and (I assume) Apple are behind H.264.
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Once the licensee purchases an item, it is considered "royalty free, " meaning they can usually do whatever they want with it.
An open standard is different from being royalty free or open source.
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Furthermore, any mineral resources extracted from public land are royalty free.
So apparently, I have granted a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to this site to use my photo.
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As part of the acquisition, IPWireless retains perpetual, royalty-free access to these patents.
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To be safe, invest in a royalty-free image service such as Clipart.com.
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In 1991 Lucas sold this system to Avid Technology with a similar provision: All advances are shared with Lucas royalty-free.
Moreover, the licence itself is not completely unique, in that royalty-free, non-exclusive technology agreements that stipulate sharing improvements have existed before.
According to Twitter's terms of service, the user gives Twitter a "worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free license" to distribute tweets in any medium, even those that don't exist yet.
But Lucas got what he wanted: A key provision of the deal provided that Lucas would receive royalty-free use of all advances Pixar made on the software.
In contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way that we want, and in any media worldwide.
As we'd figured out last night, Symbian's big reveal for today was the completion of its move to a fully open, royalty-free platform -- meaning you no longer need to be a paid-in-full member of the Foundation to see all the code -- and they're ready to talk about it and spread the word far and wide.
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For each course taken, Digital Royalty University is providing a course free of charge to school teachers through their partnership with the Las Vegas Valley Teach For America program.
In short, this is an effort to balance the reality of increasing royalty costs with our desire to maximize access to free listening on Pandora.
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He says basic scientists are free to inspect the pathway, but that Ariad expects a "reasonable royalty" for commercially available drugs that impact NF-kappa-B.
H.264 is free to use for the next five years, but after that MPEG LA plans on charging a royalty for using it.
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