Now Coinstar — with operations throughout the United States, Canada and Britain — increasingly is teaming up with retailers, who essentially pay that service fee on behalf of consumers, who in turn agree to spend their bounty with them.
Western Australia released a green paper looking at possible reforms in July, and is considering the idea that Uber could pay a flat licence fee on behalf of drivers.
So the plan essentially comes down to telling ISPs that they can avoid any copyright infringement liability if they pay the fee on behalf of customers.
One restriction prohibits legal aid lawyers, unlike their corporate counterparts, from collecting attorney fees on behalf of vindicated clients.
The only people who would know much about that are the clerks of chambers, who negotiate fees on behalf of barristers, and do very nicely, thank you.
"This is a complex law and it needs time to clear every step of the implementation process," said Marc Guez, general manager of an agency that collects licensing fees on behalf of record labels.
BMI, the organization that collects licensing fees on behalf of artists and publishers, says that last tune has been played more than 10 million times on radio and television.
Under a 1996 law, the lead plaintiff in securities class actions is supposed to negotiate fees on behalf of other shareholders.
On 11 December, lawyers for the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Individual Rights CIRR) agreed to settle out-of-court, including $25,000 in legal fees, on behalf of a white teenage Texas girl excluded from a summer science camp for groups traditionally underrepresented in science.
In a CSOP, a company pays the brokerage fees on behalf of the investor because it might want to have more of a connection and more loyalty from its shareholders (in contrast to dealing with day traders, high-frequency trading algorithms or other types of activist shareholders).
The UN has warned that the reforms will prevent claims, such as those in the Trafigura case, where solicitors took the case on a no win no fee basis on behalf of 30,0000 poor Africans, being brought against multinational businesses.
