licensee

Ideally, someone like YouTube licenses their technology, and opens up their contentID DB to the licensee for consumption...

If you're the copyright holder, not a licensee, you can change the license if you want to.

Expensive and a limited supply typically, since you can only get it from the IP owner or a licensee.

Or, even worse, do license agreements typically include language that says the licensee agrees to continue to pay royalties even if the patent is later found to be invalid?

Only the real owner of the software (not the licensee) has the right to do this kind of stuff with GPL.

But if the party suing is also a licensee, they lose their license.

Except: the original licensor sued his american licensee for continued royalty payments.

Isn't TCL just an Alcatel brand licensee?

If you the licensee also consider Modified BSD to have an implicit patent grant then the React patent grant is much worse for you than if it hadn't existed.

Any license fee at all that the inventor collects is in excess of what it costs the inventor for the licensee to use the invention, so the license fee is rent.

Basically they've had an entire integration and extension platform that is now being mostly (if slowly) closed off to them to shift several responsibilities across the border between the licensor and licensee.

I think the argument for some of these licenses is that if the licensee screws up you can report them to a proper government agency who will investigate them.

It doesn't say the "licensor" will not do something nor does it say that the "licensee" can't do something.

But again, I can see many avenues for abuse by licensee's (for example, automated "content capture" of content not currently in the DB), that would need good policies to help prevent.

We will be contacting our attorney to see what recourse we may have." It looks like in this case, it was more due to the licensee's inattention than a winning legal argument.

Licensee may not, however, transfer or sublicense the Software to any third party, in whole or in part, in any form, whether modified or unmodified." On the subject of contracts.

Licensee may not claim ownership or authorship of the Tracks licensed herein.

Licensee may use the Software in executable format for its own use, and may translate or modify the licensed programs or incorporate them into other software.