licensing fees
Permission to use
Licensing fees are payments made to use something owned by someone else—intellectual property, software, trademarks, or regulated privileges.
A business pays licensing fees to use patented technology; a bar pays them to play copyrighted music; a restaurant pays them to serve alcohol.
The fee typically grants permission for a specified time or scope: The streaming service's licensing fees for that catalog run into millions annually.
- royaltiesOngoing payments to creators
- licensorOne granting usage rights
- sublicensingGranting derived authorization rights
- intellectual propertyLegal rights over inventions
- royalty paymentsCompensation for intellectual property use
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- fundingfunding, grant, loan, grants, venture capital
- expensesexpenses, expense, expenditure, cost, costs
- chargesfees, surcharges, levies, service charges, service fees
- personal expensescopay, copays, co-payments, deductible, deductibles
- intellectual propertypatents, copyright, patent, trademark, trademarks
- Art Copyrightcopyright, artistic rights, artist rights, reproduction rights, infringement
licensing feespublic domain
Unprotected creative works
free access · open source · no cost · free software · freeware
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