The licensing schedule isn't public, but in its annual report for 2011 Dolby revealed that it collected $124 million in licensing fees from Microsoft for the year, with most of that revenue generated from Windows 7.
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This decoder, which is required for DVD movie playback, has to be licensed from Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Microsoft pays An OEM PC maker who licenses Windows from Microsoft must pay $2 in MPEG-2 licensing fees to enable DVD playback in every copy of Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate. The maker of a cheap DVD player sold at Costco pays $2 per unit for the MPEG-2 rights. The pool itself is managed by MPEG LA, which collects and distributes royalties on behalf of the patent owners, under a master license agreement.
The licensing rights for the MPEG-2 standard are made up of a pool of patents contributed by their inventors. In particular, you need access to the following: Welcome to the wonderful world of software licensing, where today we get to see a real-world example of the differences between commercial software and free software published under an open source license.Īny commercial product-hardware or software-that plays back DVDs has to have a license to a handful of software components that are protected by patents.
How come VLC can do it and Microsoft can't?" "But I can download the VLC player for Windows and get DVD playback for free. "Microsoft says the cost of DVD playback adds up to several dollars," the argument goes.
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