The Shmoo caused an unexpected national sensation, and set the stage for a major licensing phenomenon.

The end of the offshore Radio Caroline came when the Broadcasting Act 1990, which built on all similar and related legislation, together with a storm that caused its staff temporarily to abandon the ship, caused the station to come ashore in 1991, where enthusiasts continue to build a broadcasting business using the new licensing system available to British broadcasters.

Conflicts over licensing terms, ownership, and other interpersonal issues caused the cutover to Gestalt to never happen.

The Pressplay music service initially received a lot of criticism for its complicated licensing model, and for offering a selection of artists and titles that was not large enough to lure consumers away from piracy options.

Prior to the release of the Hatsune Miku product, Crypton Future Media had also noted there was some criticism at choosing to release the original Vocaloid engine as a commercial licensing product, although felt that the choice was for the better of the engine.

Most criticism is of the player designs not resembling the actual people, which is a licensing issue.

The other bill, by Sen. A. M. Aikin Jr. of Paris, would relieve real estate brokers, who pay their own annual licensing fee, from the $12 annual occupation license on brokers in such as stocks and bonds.

Samuel D. Goodis, representing the Philadelphia Hotel Association, objected on Tuesday to a proposed boost by the city in licensing fees, saying that occupancy rates in major hotels here ranged from 48 to 74 percent last year.

While the creator of the NES version would be restricted from making a competitive version of an NES game, the original arcade copyright holder was not precluded from licensing out rights for a home version of an arcade game to multiple systems.

Herald-Traveler Corp. operated for years under temporary authority from the Federal Communications Commission stemming from controversy over luncheon meetings the newspaper's chief executive had with an FCC commissioner during the original licensing process ( Some Boston broadcast historians accuse the Boston Globe of being covertly behind the proceeding.

It has obtained the necessary licensing from the Cape Verde Government.

* Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure is a reference implementation of the CLI available from Microsoft, under the Shared source licensing program.

East Bay Ray claims he received a fax from Alternative Tentacles purporting Biafra approved the licensing for the game, which Biafra denies happening.

In 2000 Warner Music released Enya: The Video Collection on DVD in Europe, South Africa and Asia, collecting all her videos from " Orinoco Flow " up to and including " Wild Child ", except for the video from " Book of Days ", which was replaced by a live TV performance due to licensing complications relating to the video's use of footage from the film Far and Away.

When CBC was denied a new licensing agreement with MLBAM ( they had acquired the rights from the baseball players ' association ) for its fantasy baseball game, CBC filed suit.

: Entertainment Lawyers negotiate contracts, clear licensing rights for any intellectual property used in the film, obtain tax credits from local governments, and take care of immigration paperwork when cast and / or crew cross international borders to shoot on location.

However, courts and various levels of government have indicated that the right is not without limit, and restrictions such as a prohibition of certain persons from owning or handling a gun ( convicted felons, mentally ill persons, persons under a restraining order ), a ban on certain types of ammunition ( armor-piercing, incendiary / tracer, explosive ), registration and restriction of certain types of firearms ( automatic weapons, short-barrelled shotguns, certain types of modifications ), and licensing requirements for possession or for public carry, have often passed judicial scrutiny ( although some of these points remain untested and others are currently under challenge ).

The area available known as the West Disko licensing round is of an interest due to its relative accessibility compared to other Arctic basins as the area remains largely free of ice and a number of promising geological leads and prospects from the Paleocene era.

Premavision owns the distribution rights to the Gumby cartoons ( having been reverted from previous distributor Warner Bros. Television ), and has licensed the rights to Classic Media of which said licensing ends in September 2012.

However Id Tech 4 had far fewer licensees than the Unreal Engine from Epic Games, due to the long development time that went into Doom 3 which Id had to release before licensing out that engine to others.

The one notable filmmaker excluded from the licensing agreement was Biograph, which Edison hoped to squeeze out of the market.

Another reason was the MPPC's overestimation of the efficiency of controlling the motion picture industry through patent litigation and the exclusion of independents from licensing.

The Internet Engineering Task Force's RTP MIDI open specification is gaining industry support, as proprietary MIDI / IP protocols require expensive licensing fees, or provide no advantage, apart from speed, over the original MIDI protocol.

Fully half of MIPS ' income today comes from licensing their designs, while much of the rest comes from contract design work on cores that will then be produced by third parties.

In 1999 MIPS formalized their licensing system around two basic designs, the 32-bit MIPS32 ( based on MIPS II with some additional features from MIPS III, MIPS IV, and MIPS V ) and the 64-bit MIPS64 ( based on MIPS V ).

Both of these companies designed their cores in-house, just licensing the architecture instead of purchasing cores from MIPS.

There are many successful companies today that sell only software products, though there are still many common software licensing problems due to the complexity of designs and poor documentation, leading to patent trolls.

" Because the discipline covers many areas, which may or may not include critical applications, it is debatable whether licensing is required for the profession as a whole.

During the 1980s and 1990s many companies signed licensing deals with the player associations, but some companies did not.

In addition to licensing, many nurse-midwives have a master's degree in nursing, public health, or midwifery.

Although the new licensing laws prevented new beer houses from being created, those already in existence were allowed to continue and many did not close until nearly the end of the 19th century.

During the 20th century elsewhere, both the licensing laws and enforcement were progressively relaxed, and there were differences between parishes ; in the 1960s, at closing time in Kensington at 10: 30 pm, drinkers would rush over the parish boundary to be in good time for " Last Orders " in Knightsbridge before 11 pm, a practice observed in many pubs adjoining licensing area boundaries.

That is, the NTC has clearly adopted a liberal licensing regime that has led to increased competition in many markets, in particular, the broadband and the international internet gateway markets.

Finally, in an echo of the X11R6. 4 licensing dispute, XFree86 released version 4. 4 in February 2004 under a more restrictive license which many projects relying on X found unacceptable.

In other countries licensing of private investigators does not exist and many organisations may set themselves up without a license.

Due to licensing disputes, Lick My Decals Off, Baby was unavailable on CD for many years, though it remained in print on vinyl.

In the Complete Series DVD release, creator Glenn Eichler says in the notes " 99 percent of the music has been changed, because the cost of licensing the many music bites we used would have made it impossible to release the collection ( and for many years did ).

Most of them were three-wheelers, which in many places qualified them for inexpensive taxes and licensing as motorcycles.

In 1971, Mego began licensing and making American Marvel and DC comic book superhero figures, which had highly successful sales and are considered highly collectible by many adults today.

The original video release — on blue box VHS and laserdisc — kept the soundtrack intact, however, many songs in the film such as Supertramp's " School ", John Lennon's " Oh My Love " and The Bellamy Brothers ' " Let Your Love Flow " were removed from the second round of home releases — VHS red box — due to licensing issues, and were replaced with sound-alikes.

The licensing deal with Karmaloop TV also means that kung fu and action film fans in the United States will see these films in their digitally restored versions, many of which will be premiering for the first time on U. S. television in High Definition.

It also makes many of its Japanese articles available in English through wire services, an English language website, and a licensing agreement with LexisNexis.

In most countries, this system of licensing makes many markets local oligopolies.

Milton argues that licensing is “ a dishonor and derogation to the author, to the book, to the privilege and dignity of learning .” This is because many authors will produce a written work with genuinely good intentions only to have it censored by what amounts to a subjective, arbitrary judgment of the licenser.

By the early 1990s, Nintendo of America had relaxed many of its licensing restrictions, and, no longer needed, Ultra was reabsorbed into Konami's official American branch in 1992.

Although not required by the licensing process, many first-and second-year law students work in law firms during the summer off-school season to earn extra money and to guarantee themselves an articling position ( with the same law firms ) upon their graduation from law school, because there is always fierce competition for articling positions, especially for those in large law firms offering attractive remuneration and prestige, and a law graduate cannot become a licensed lawyer in Canada if he / she has not gone through articled clerkship.

Kenzer & Company received many requests from fans of the comic to produce an actual HackMaster game, but initially they thought that licensing Dungeons & Dragons would be impossible.

In this form of licensing, for more than one person to be using that software or hardware, they need to have a multi-user license that usually dictates how many different people may use it.