The US cinema returns were $34.6 million, making Licence to Kill the least financially successful James Bond film in the US, when accounting for inflation.
For commercial use, Magnatune makes licences available quickly and cheaply online.
With underlay rights, says Vanu Bose, the boss of Vanu, a firm that designs software-powered radios, "the broadcasters don't even have to get off the spectrum they have now, because they don't use most of it".Another good measure for regulators is to make licences more flexible.
Dior Couture, for example, still has eyeglasses, jewellery, lingerie and hosiery made under licence, though most of its other 300 or so licences have been taken back.Betsey Johnson, whose sexy, fun dresses have inspired a cult following among the baby-boomer generation that loves the Rolling Stones, is negotiating her first licences this year, for shoes, hosiery, lingerie and jeans.
Like InBev's successful Leffe, Bohemia is made under licence from abbeys.
Some of these have been made under licence in China itself.
Even when its logo appeared on a dodgy watch made under licence.
He relates indignantly that when General Dynamics wanted Dasa engines for Abrams tanks, they had to be made under licence in America.
The exhibition takes its name from the local term – Jakarta – for a KTM motorbike that is made under licence in China.
Even then he probably had bought not American Levis at 10 or 20 times their original price, but Lee Coopers, made under licence in politically obstreperous Yugoslavia.
