1. Investors cheered when the licensing deal was announced in 2012.

2. That information is now in the head of every single Samsung licensing executive.

3. The company said in the statement that it must also grow software and licensing revenue.

4. The service provider is eating those costs and reporting that licensing on your behalf.

5. To do that, Google would probably have to strike new licensing deals with music labels.

6. The company is investing more to buy music licensing rights.

7. Qualcomm makes most of its profit from licensing fees paid by companies that use its chips.

8. Samsung was sued by Microsoft last year for violating the terms of a licensing agreement.

9. It turns out that people employ the same kind of licensing strategy in political decisions.

10. Netflix is likely covering for the fact that offline viewing would be a licensing nightmare.

11. Many more titles are likely to drop off Netflix in the next few years as licensing deals expire.

12. The FCC proposal would also include a flexible licensing and auction plan, he said.

13. Twitter also makes money by licensing use of its aggregated data to other companies.

14. Nearly every automaker on the planet would be open to licensing Apple technology.

15. It expects only modest revenue from the licensing business.