Glossary
Per-licence pricing
Charging per licence granted rather than per unit of data. Because non-exclusive rights can be sold many times, the same archive can earn a separate fee from each buyer.
The alternatives are per-unit pricing — per hour of audio or video, per image, per million tokens — and flat archive fees. Per-licence framing suits non-exclusive rights: each buyer pays for its own grant, and serving another buyer costs the owner almost nothing. Contracts still describe the corpus in units so both sides know exactly what was licensed.
Why it matters
It reframes an archive from a one-off sale into a repeatable product.