Method for the distribution of audio-visual information and a system for the distribution of audio-visual information
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Abstract
A jukebox system, including a server that stores a master library of audiovisual selections; a plurality of jukeboxes, each of which is operable to store audiovisual selections received from the server and to play the audiovisual selections at the request of a user; a communication system through which the server and the jukeboxes communicate; wherein the server is operable to define authorized uses for the audiovisual selections received from the server; and further wherein the authorized uses correspond to various rights that third parties have in the audiovisual selections, the rights requiring by law or regulation payment of respective royalties; and further wherein the server maintains information on the authorized uses made by each of the jukeboxes and determines the amount of royalties due.
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21 Claims
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18. A jukebox system, comprising
a server that stores a master library of audiovisual selections; -
a plurality of jukeboxes, each of which is operable to store audiovisual selections received from the server and to play the audiovisual selections at the request of a user;
a communication system through which the server and the jukeboxes communicate;
wherein the server is operable to define, for each of the jukeboxes, authorized uses for the audiovisual selections received from the server;
and further wherein the authorized uses correspond to various rights that third parties have in the audiovisual selections, the rights requiring by law or regulation payment of respective royalties for the authorized uses of the audiovisual selections;
and further wherein the server maintains information on the authorized uses made by each of the jukeboxes and determines the amount of royalties due for each authorized use. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21)
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