At home, by contrast, no matter how many people gather to watch a streamed film, the cost is the same (or they pay indirectly, in the case of Netflix, which generally licenses content from studios for a fixed fee and charges users for monthly subscriptions).
The major and independent record labels that Muzu TV licenses content from should also benefit, of course, through much greater distribution, which should lead to more revenue for them too.
MobiTV licenses content from major television studios, including ABC, CBS, Disney, ESPN, Fox, MTV Networks and NBC; and in 2010 delivered over 3,000 live events to mobile devices.
NewsCred, a company that licenses content from publications like The New York Times and The Economist for use in brand marketing campaigns, announced that it has raised $15 million in new funding.
NewsCred licenses content from more than 750 premium media brands, like Bloomberg, Forbes, Guardian, and The Economist, and provides a news API that allows companies to access premium content from those publishers.
On Tuesday, the Web's top bittorrent tracking and indexing site, the Pirate Bay, announced that it had agreed to sell itself to the Swedish gaming company Global Gaming Factory for the equivalent of $7.7 million, in a deal designed to make the site a legitimate media business that licenses content from media owners.
You can play content that you already own – we use licensed content APIs for that".
In the United States last month, Google agreed to license content from The Associated Press for a new service.
And moving overseas would further incense the record companies and make them unwilling to license content.
Studios, whose licensed content includes popular niches such as Transformers, Magic the Gathering and Adventure Time.
Netflix said nothing about how it would license content in other languages.
