licensing

So perhaps the rationale is a licensing issue.

Sometimes this is through licensing, sometimes it's by excluding some key portions of the build chain (e.g.

And you're covered by a patent (or at least an application), so potential competitors can't interoperate without a licensing agreement.

If they don't think your service is worth much to them they probably don't want to bother licensing you the content.

And you shut the whole product down because you couldn't get the licensing, so clearly you have no product without those music rights.

They should just try to get a good licensing deal out of it.

The licensing became a lot more reasonable after the episode in 2003.

Since the China market is blocked to them, this could be a massive win if they get some sort of joint venture, partnership, or licensing going.

Good piece, but more specific to money licensing companies.

Instead, somehow in many cases we're ending up licensing our own stuff.

A lot of money could possibly help to get good base maps into it (by paying enough that their producers accept OSM licensing), which could help that situation...

Apple and Google had a dispute over licensing.

Curiously enough a friend in Germany got "Live straming is not available in your country due to licensing issues" error on this video.

Keeps telling me about "Licensing issues".

Maybe a partnership (I heard they're censored from mainland China, no?), some sort of licensing, or even a token settlement of a little bit of cash so that "Microsoft settled for an undisclosed amount." Going to war with someone who doesn't want it and apologized is a bad play, but they should at least see if they can get a little further with this.