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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2017
Visa International Service Association, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert M. Yost, San Francisco, CA (US);
Visa International Service Association, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Described herein are systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing the detection of displays or performances of copyrighted creative works, determining whether a license exists for those performances, and taking further action depending upon the results of that determination. The systems, methods, and apparatuses may include using a mobile device to capture occurrences of multimedia data as well as information relating to the location of those occurrences, and transmitting representations of those occurrences and information to a server computer. The server computer may identify the copyrighted work associated with the multimedia data, determine if a license for performance of that work exists, determine a price for its performance/display, and generate and then send an invoice for the performance of the copyrighted work.