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devices has to pay a small fixed fee for each device sold, and also include a substantial annual fixed fee. With millions of devices sold each year, the royalties can amount to several millions of dollars, which is a significant burden for the manufacturer. Examples of such royalties-based standards include IEEE 1394,
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Many computer industry standards, especially those developed and submitted by industry consortiums or individual companies, involve royalties for the actual implementation of these standards. These royalties are typically charged on a "per port"/"per device" basis, where the manufacturer of end-user
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is not legally recognized yet. Most jurisdictions, including Spain and Germany, state that only works created by a human can be protected by copyright. Since generative AI models derive their source material from a countless amount of human-generated content, it is not easy to define who owns what
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business models. When something has a royalty-free descriptor, that does not mean it is free. Copyrighted work is protected from use by others without formal permission and royalty payments. Royalties are a percentage of earnings that are paid to an intellectual property owner/ content creator.
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Royalty-free standards do not include any "per-port" or "per-volume" charges or annual payments for the actual implementation of the standard, even though the text of the actual specification is typically protected by copyright and needs to be purchased from the standards body. Most
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license where the user has the right to use the picture without many restrictions to the licensor. The user can therefore use the image in several projects without having to purchase any additional licenses. RF licenses can not be given on an exclusive basis. In
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are royalty-free, and many proprietary standards are royalty-free as well. Examples of royalty-free standards include
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The Focal encyclopaedia of photography: digital imaging, theory and applications, history, and science
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percentage of the rights to the results. However, larger firms which offer AI stock images such as
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for each use, per each copy or volume sold or some time period of use or sales.
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Type of copyright licence with no royalties or per-use fees
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Index

Royalty free
copyright
intellectual property
royalties
license fees
HDMI
MPEG
open standards
DisplayPort
VGA
VP8
Matroska
photography
illustration
copyright
stock photography
Rights Managed
subscription-based
microstock photography
AI-generated images
Shutterstock
Open standard
Royalty-free music
The Focal encyclopaedia of photography: digital imaging, theory and applications, history, and science
ISBN
978-0-240-80740-9
"What Does Royalty Free Mean? A Complete Guide to Royalty-Free Content"
"WIPO Lex, Spain, Law No. 22/1987 of November 11, 1987, on Intellectual Property"
Urheber
"Artificial intelligence and copyright"

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