Royalty Report: Software, Security, Tool – Collection: 5185

License Grant

Licensor grants toTaiwanese Licensee a nonexclusive, nontransferable worldwide license to apply the Audio Copy Protection System, together with the Licensed Properties, to the Products solely in connection with the manufacturing, sale, marketing, distribution and advertising of the Products.

License Property

Licensor is the owner of proprietary, patent-pending encryption and copy-protection technology designed to copy protect digital music (the 'Audio Copy Protection System'), together with the Licensed Properties as defined. We entered into a license agreement with a Company, granting the Company a nonexclusive, nontransferable worldwide license to incorporate MediaCloQ into its CD products.  The license is exclusive only as it relates to artists that the Company promotes and distributes pursuant to a written exclusive recording agreement with such artists.

MediaCloQ(tm) content security features are not resolvable using any single solution, greatly reducing the probability of loss to illegal duplication. Presently, MediaCloQ(tm) secures audio compact discs ('CDs') from unauthorized duplication.  Our MediaCloQ(tm) proprietary technology adopts this latter strategy of barring duplication.  Other means of barring duplication include systems using on-line 'musical' currency and other micropayment systems, long key encryption, public key cryptography systems (e.g., Motorola's CipherNET(r) or the prospective public domain Advanced Encryption Standard), hardware-based protection (chips, computers, peripherals, secure containers), portable flash memory devices, and compression codices.  The initial term of the license is seven (7) years with three (3) consecutive option periods of two (2) years each, beginning at the end of the initial term.

License Grant

The Licensee reached a definitive Agreement with the Licensor to transfer only intellectual property and select equipment including inventions, pending patents, research and development and property relating to current joint development initiatives. The Licensee plans to further develop the technology in order to ensure effectiveness and compatibility.

License Property

British Licensor owns certain Intellectual Property together with all related documentation and technology demonstrators and prototypes associated with the listed patent applications (114789P102817GB, 117332P102817US and PCT/GB2004/000269).

Field of Use

Licensee is engaged in the business of developing, marketing, and licensing proprietary copy control and content management technologies and products designed to prevent the illegal usable reproduction of the content embodied on CDs and DVDs as well as to provide a legal means for the CD/DVD buyer to make Licensed copies of their legally purchased CD/DVDs as designated by the copyright owner.

License Grant

For the Licensee of Japan Products and Trust Services, Licensor grants Licensee of Japan a nonexclusive, nontransferable, and worldwide license, under the Licensed Patents, in the Consumer Media Field, to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, lease, import and otherwise transfer Licensee Products and/or operate Licensee Trust Services.

For the Memory Stick, Licensor grants a nonexclusive, nontransferable, and worldwide license, under the Licensed Patents, in the Consumer Media Field, to sublicense third parties the right to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, lease, import and otherwise transfer Memory Stick; and to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, lease, import and otherwise transfer Memory Stick Capable Products.

License Property

Licensor holds the patent rights relating to, but not limited to; Database Usage Metering and Protection System and Method; Systems and Methods for Secure Transaction Management and Electronic Rights Protection; Systems and Methods Using Cryptography to Protect Secure Computing Environments.

Consumer Media Content means electronic content and information primarily released or published for distribution to and consumption by end-user individual consumers in the consumer market, including audio, video, video games, books, periodicals and other textual publications, and includes associated consumer end-user data obtained in connection therewith.

Memory Stick means a stand-alone, portable, secure, self-contained semiconductor storage device that is designed to be inserted into and interfaces with Memory Stick Capable Products, and meets the Memory Stick Standard Format Specifications, or any successor product that is a stand-alone, portable, secure, self-contained storage semiconductor device provided that such device will not be considered a successor product while it is sold or distributed by Licensee at the same time as the prior Memory Stick device. Memory Stick shall not include any DRM software, but includes its device drivers and any Licensee authentication or security software running on any embedded, dedicated-purpose processor on such Memory Stick.

Memory Stick Capable Products means any hardware product that incorporates device drivers, and potentially Licensee DRM software, that interface with a Memory Stick, and that does not include or interface with any third-party DRM software or services, nor include or interface with any other stand-alone, portable, secure, self-contained storage device. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Memory Stick Capable Products shall not include any personal computer or set top box, or other products similar to a personal computer or set top box, that contain a general purpose or open operating system, or any general purpose trusted systems or environments.

Licensee Product means any hardware or software product, including but not limited to devices and software products, including DRM software products, made, used, offered for sale, sold, imported or otherwise distributed by or for Licensee, under any Licensee Trademark; and any mobile phones or mobile audio devices made by Licensee, and distributed to a Vertical Partner by or for Licensee, for incorporation into such Vertical Partner’s value–added products under a brand owned by such Vertical Partner.

Licensee Trust Services means any services for Licensee Products that are operated by Licensee, under any Licensee Trademark, to provide key management and renewability, security patches and fixes, and other similar types of security maintenance services.

Field of Use

Consumer Media Field means products and services that are principally intended for end-user individual consumers, to Govern Consumer Media Content. Consumer Media Field excludes any product or service that is intended for use by enterprises, organizations, or governmental entities to Govern their enterprise, confidential, or other proprietary information.

Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology is implemented in software and is most often used to protect digital content, such as music and video clips, from unauthorized copying.