Sentence examples for steep licensing from inspiring English sources

In the past, HBO has paid steep licensing fees of about $20 million per picture for exclusive rights a few months after films arrive on DVD.

Threatened by these lawsuits, innovators have to either gamble on litigation that could force them into huge settlements, or pay steep licensing fees for tech they already developed on their own.

Sesame Street has struggled in recent years to acquire the funding it needs to stay on the air, because of the rapid rise of streaming and on-demand viewing and a steep decline in licensing income.

Uber has triggered protests by taxi drivers from London to New Delhi as it upends traditional business models that require professional drivers to pay often steep fees for licenses to operate cabs.

If you have found a product that you like but the price is a little steep, ask a licensed professional for a recommendation of a similar product.

Cities limited the number of taxi licenses and charged drivers steep fees for taxi medallions.

Mr. Milosevic previously attacked the independent media mainly by yanking their licenses, suing them and imposing steep fines.

Hundreds of cameras in the "congestion zone" are supposed to identify license plates, with scofflaws paying steep fines that could go as high as $200 or so.

Netflix has become a target of HBO and that network's parent company, Time Warner, as well as other major media companies, and it is likely to face much steeper costs for those licenses.

It recently modified a new software-licensing plan, which would have led to steep price increases for some corporate customers.

It described "a grotesque picture of a society steeped in violence" and called for complete registration and licensing of all firearms.