Technology & Licenses
Since establishing Catch Media in 2003, we have significantly invested in developing and protecting our intellectual property.
Play Anywhere® Patent Portfolio
To date, our IP portfolio consists of 3 issued patents, 4 allowed patents and 59 patents pending around the world. These cover eight defined patent family groups relating to the Catch Media Play Anywhere® SmartCloud system for tracking, aggregating, and distribution of content. The portfolio provides the backbone to our award winning technology and service.
First of its kind – Post-acquisition licenses
The first commercial deployment and demonstration of the Play Anywhere® platform’s flexibility has been in the music market. In developing this service Catch Media signed ’post-acquisition licenses’ with the major and independent music labels publishers and societies, covering tens of millions of tracks.
Traditional content licenses give holders only the individual right to sell or to rent or to stream/broadcast digital media directly to the recipient.
The Play Anywhere® License was the first of its kind in the marketplace. It means subscribers can route media content directly or indirectly whenever they want and to whichever device they designate so long as that content is deemed to exist in the subscriber’s content collection.
Post-acquisition revenues
Our platform facilitates ongoing revenues for our partners by providing the technology infrastructure for a wide variety of post-acquisition services.
These revenues can be generated after a consumer’s initial purchase of their digital assets. Post-acquisition revenue is allocated between publishers, e-tailers, artists, manufacturers, service providers and other service enablers, and as such represents an opportunity and an incentive for these participants to generate additional revenue from digital assets that have already been sold.
To find out more about new revenue opportunities in this emerging content eco-system, visit our Partner Services pages.