Re: Patents, Royalties and other Scams...???


" Dave xxxx" <davewhit181@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Keith G wrote:
>> Summat came up in an offlist conversation when I mentioned I had a
>> picture lifted from an early website. The question of
>> reward/compensation arose immediately. Which led me to....
>>
>> How did the Music Industry (and Hollywood) ever manage to get the
>> entire world to play the 'Royalties Game'??
>>
>> Discuss by all means, but if you aren't able to think 'outside of the
>> box' you'll be wrong... ;-)
>
> In this case Hollywood are not top at racking it it
>
> Tetra are the best http://www.tetrapak.com/
>
> Dr. Ruben Rausing, makes money every time a carton of milk or whatever is
> in a tetra pack is sold
>
I seem to remember also a royalty being paid to the chap who invented
the cat's eye, used on roads in GB. There must be quite a few of those too.

The irony of Tetrapack is that the Rausing brothers, from Sweden, tried to
sell the idea outright, and no one wanted to know.

Iain


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