Patent Application Number: 2008225074
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Prior Art Detail
Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | This refers to a method/system for payment of a copyright levy (read – royalty) for a work when it is transferred in digital form. It involved the customer themselves enrolling with a content-provider using their details. The customer then downloads their content – and then the levy is calculated and passed onto the owner of the material. A customer can also register as a copier, so that a levy is charged if the customer makes a copy of the data and passes it on; this would be policed by a ‘copy agent’ engaged whenever the work is transferred. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Issued Patents - US |
| Country | United States of America |
| Patent/Application # | 2005/0075943 |
| Kind Code | United States (US) - United STATES Patent - A |
| Patentee Name | Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmBH |
| Relevant Pages, Columns, or Lines | Multiple |
| URL | http://www.freepatentsonline.co... |
| Filing Date | January 24, 2004 |
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Notes / To Do
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Excerpt
Excerpt In the prior art document, the claim is broadly worded to cover methods of paying a c’right levy for the distribution of c’righted work to and amongst customers of the copyrighted work. |
Relevance
Claims
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A system for providing a royalty calculation, the system comprising: one or more electronic gaming machines configured to receive gaming software from a communications link; a first server configured to provide said gaming software to said one or more electronic gaming machines over a first communications link; a second server configured to provide said gaming software to said first server over a second communications link; and a royalty calculator configured to calculate a royalty for use of said gaming software at said one or more electronic gaming machines.
| Relevance | Although the Australian application is much narrower as to how it is framed in relation to the calculation of royalties, in that it is only referring to gaming machines; it is still the same general idea. There is no real dramatic advancement; in fact, the Australian application is probably more simplistic in that it does not charge for further dissemination. |
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