Sentence examples for upfront licensing from inspiring English sources

Among its backers is Genting New York, a subsidiary of the largest gambling company in England and Southeast Asia, which paid a $380 million upfront licensing fee last year for the right to install 4,525 video slot machines at the Aqueduct racetrack, which it would like to turn into a full-fledged casino.

Disney paid an upfront licensing fee, but EPE didn't push for a slice of the film's profits.

U2 and Interscope will split a standard royalty for each song downloaded (about $0.60 per download), plus an upfront licensing fee.

Microsoft today announced Microsoft Office Online, which makes its popular Office suite available as a hosted service over the Internet that users can lease, rather than pay an upfront licensing fee to store locally on a computer hard drive.

For the user, this transition means no more upfront licensing or server infrastructure costs and can result in far lower customization and integration expense since true SaaS systems are designed from the ground up to be universally accessible, secure and user-configurable.

Instead of wasting a lot of time, money and manpower setting up and maintaining complex enterprise applications and paying huge upfront licensing fees, businesses can now "rent" applications on a subscription basis and have someone else worry about hassles like upgrades, bug patches and technical problems.

Open-source companies are providing SaaS licenses, and commercial vendors are abandoning expensive upfront licenses, support and maintenance agreements.

It also allows them to pay on an ongoing subscription basis, rather than having to cough up huge upfront license fees a particular boon to smaller and midsized businesses.

Instead of waiting for royalties to trickle in from sales, musicians were happy to get paid upfront for licensing their music to advertisers and to TV and movie soundtracks.

And instead of an upfront $1,500 licensing fee per machine, plus maintenance and upgrade fees, ScaleXtreme is shooting for something closer to $150 a year per machine.

While most video sites today pay upfront for licensing rights to video content, BAMM.tv is trying to establish a new model for partnering with and paying artists.