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Treating water like oil, Greenland legislators may impose royalties on bulk water exports or may favor operations that create jobs by bottling water locally.
Among other things, his bill would impose royalties of 4percentt of net revenues on existing mines and 8percentt on new mines — bringing mining nearly into line with the royalties paid by the oil, gas and coal industries for resources extracted from public lands.
Whilst GM producers patent their discoveries and impose royalties on their products, GMOs are framed as solutions to world hunger and environmental degradation.
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But even the simple act of getting paid has entered murky waters as the recording industry, digital media companies and consumer electronics makers battle over potential amendments to the nation's copyright laws, a crazy quilt of regulations that impose royalty rates for recorded music that can vary wildly depending on the medium.
Since books and records can be copied freely (as, indeed, they are, online), we impose a royalty on the copyist in order to insure that the originator isn't cheated for his labor.
Ultimately, we don't see what the government has to gain by scuppering the deal at this late juncture, and based on the evidence to date, it is not clear to us how the government could impose a royalty decision in its favour (if this is the driving force behind the delays) if the status quo is maintained.
It is a standard provided by the MPEG-LA consortsia, and is governed by commercial and IP restrictions, which will in 2014 impose a royalty and license requirement on all users of the technology.
Venezuela quietly began courting Western oil companies again in 2008 after nationalizing some of their assets, imposing higher royalties on them and subjecting their executives to raids by tax authorities.
But this could have been done by tweaking the existing arrangements, for example to impose a higher royalty.
Such a patent policy promotes open collaboration amongst companies, as noted by Rosen [34]: "When major software companies cooperate openly to develop industry standards in organizations like W3C and IETF, few of them have much incentive to demand royalties or impose burdens on competing implementations" (p. 7).
The government also wants to impose a "sliding-scale royalty" on the project.
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