licensee
(noun)
In a licensing relationship, the buyer of the produce, service, brand or technology being licensed.
Examples of licensee in the following topics:
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Licensing
- Under a licensing agreement, a firm (licensor) provides some technology to a foreign firm (licensee) by granting that firm the right to use the licensor's manufacturing process, brand name, patents, or sales knowledge in return for some payment.
- The licensee obtains a competitive advantage in this arrangement, while the licensor obtains inexpensive access to a foreign market.
- Or, the licensee may be unwilling to invest the necessary resources as needed to be successful.
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Licensing
- A licensor (i.e. the firm with the technology or brand) can provide their products, services, brand and/or technology to a licensee via an agreement.
- In exchange, the licensee sells the product locally under a local brand name and kicks back 15% of the overall revenues to the licensor.
- The licensee will provide the majority of the infrastructure in most situations.
- Licensing provides critical resources in this regard, as the licensee has local contacts, mastery of local language, and a deep understanding of the local market.
- Particularly relevant is the licensing of a brand name, as any quality control issue on behalf of the licensee will impact the licensor's parent brand.
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Franchise Agreements
- Definitions, such as: Agreement, Territory Area, Area Licensee, Authorized deductions, Gross Receipts, License Network, The System Manual, Trademarks, Start Date, Trade name, Termination, Transfer of license.
- Transfer of License, such as: Consent of franchisor, Termination of license, Termination by licensee, Termination by licensee
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The MIT / X Window System License
- This license's basic message is "You are free to use this code however you want. " It is compatible with the GNU GPL, and it is short, simple, and easy to understand:
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How to Apply a License to Your Software
- The standard way to do this is to put the full license text in a file called COPYING (or LICENSE) included with the source code, and then put a short notice in a comment at the top of each source file, naming the copyright date, holder, and license, and saying where to find the full text of the license.
- It does not say specifically that the copy of the license you received along with the program is in the file COPYING or LICENSE, but that's where it's usually put.
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Global Marketing in the U.S.
- Under a licensing agreement, a firm (licensor) provides a product to a foreign firm (licensee) by granting that firm the right to use the licensor's manufacturing process, brand name, patents, or sales knowledge, in return for payment.
- The licensee obtains a competitive advantage in this arrangement, while the licensor obtains inexpensive access to a new market.
- Furthermore, if a licensee firm fails to successfully reproduce a particular product, it could tarnish that product's original brand image.
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Copyright
- CREATIVE COMMONS CORPORATION IS NOT A LAW FIRM AND DOES NOT PROVIDE LEGAL SERVICES.DISTRIBUTION OF THIS LICENSE DOES NOT CREATE AN ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP.
- THE WORK (AS DEFINED BELOW) IS PROVIDED UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS CREATIVE COMMONS PUBLIC LICENSE ("CCPL" OR "LICENSE").
- BY EXERCISING ANY RIGHTS TO THE WORK PROVIDED HERE, YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE.
- terms of this License.You must include a copy of, or the
- OF THIS LICENSE OR THE USE OF THE WORK, EVEN IF LICENSOR HAS BEEN
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Regulation of Broadcast Media
- The FCC adopted the view that station licensees were "public trustees," and therefore, had an obligation to broadcast contrasting viewpoints on controversial issues of public importance.
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Using Creative Commons Licenses
- Under an "all rights reserved" copyright, the licensor (the copyright owner) and the licensee negotiate for individual specific rights.
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Terminology
- The FSF categorizes licenses not only by whether they are free, but whether they are compatible with the GNU General Public License.GPL compatibility is an important topic, covered in the section called "The GPL and License Compatibility".
- , but the more recent Apache Software License version 2 (apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) is also very popular—increasingly so—and somewhat better adapted to the legal landscape of modern open source software development.