Patent ID: 8458099

Claim:
A method for online licensing and distribution of content, comprising: uploading content to a central website; associating a license agreement with the content using the central website; creating a royalty profile by identifying at least one royalty recipient and a royalty percentage for the at least one royalty recipient; storing the royalty profile at the central website; processing the content at the central website to determine at least one of a usage category, a usage sub-category, a specific content usage, or a media type associated with the content; calculating at the central website a suggested license fee for the content based upon the at least one of the usage category, the usage sub-category, the specific content usage, or the media type of the content determined by the central website; receiving the suggested license fee for the content from the central website; identifying a licensee of the content using the central website, wherein the central website notifies the licensee that the content is available for download from the central website; and receiving the suggested license fee when the content is licensed and downloaded by the licensee from the central website, wherein royalty fees are distributed from the suggested license fee in accordance with the royalty profile stored at the central website.