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Royalty definition

What does Royalty mean? A royalty is a payment by a licensee or user to a rights holder for the use, enjoyment or exploitation of rights, most commonly intellectual property (copyright, patents, trade marks, designs, database rights and know‑how) or mineral and natural resource rights. In practice it includes running royalties calculated by reference to sales, output or usage, as well as lump sums, advances, minimum guarantees and milestone payments under licence, franchise, publishing, technology transfer and resource extraction agreements. Typical terms address audit and reporting rights, territorial scope, exclusivity, caps/floors, permitted deductions, net versus gross receipts, and tax gross‑up. Across England & Wales, Scotland,...

A practitioner’s guide to open data and re-use of public sector information: UK regime, EU developments, licensing, GDPR and IP issues

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What is open data?

Put simply, ‘open data’ describes information released to the public in an open, machine-readable form, on licence terms that let users access, reuse and exploit it on a royalty-free basis. There is no single, universally agreed definition of open data. One widely cited example is the Open Definition 2.1 from the Open Knowledge Foundation. That definition is detailed, specific and designed to foster the widest uptake.

Key elements of the Open Definition are:

Data should be supplied at no more than a reasonable, one-off reproduction cost.
Data should be available without restrictions on use, and it must be possible to process it using at least one open source, free or ‘libre’ software tool.
The accompanying licence must meet certain conditions. In broad terms, it must allow use for any purpose without limiting the field of use, and permit distribution and modification of the source data, the creation of derivative works from the source, and the compilation and redistribution of the source alongside other data...

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