Royalty-free, or RF, refers to the right to use copyright material or intellectual property without the need to pay royalties or license fees for each use, per each copy or volume sold or some time period of use or sales.

Computer standards[edit]

Royalty-free merely refers to the right to use copyrighted music without the need to pay performance royalties. As a matter of fact, in most cases, you do need to pay certain amount of money to obtain that right (that is, to purchase the royalty-free license). Likewise, free music may or may not be royalty-free. Is royalty free music copyright / rights free? Absolutely not. Royalty free is the licensing option made specifically for copyrighted music. Only the public domain recordings are copyright free. Does royalty free mean it’s free to use? Generally speaking, no, though it’s a common misconception.

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 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, HDMI, and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC.

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 open standards are royalty-free, and many proprietary standards are royalty-free as well. Examples of royalty-free standards include DisplayPort, VGA, VP8, and Matroska.

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Photography and illustrations[edit]

In photography and the illustration industry, it refers to a copyright license where the user has the right to use the picture without many restrictions based on one-time payment 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 stock photography, RF is one of the common licenses sometimes contrasted with Rights Managed licenses and often employed in subscription-based or microstock photography business models.^[1]

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References[edit]

1. ^Peres, Michael R (2007). The Focal encyclopaedia of photography: digital imaging, theory and applications, history, and science. Focal Press. pp. 352–353. ISBN978-0-240-80740-9.