Separately Licensed Code

Content & IP Rights · Context

Third-party components in certain Roku products carry separate terms

The page says certain Roku products contain software components that Roku does not own, and that those components are subject to separate terms and conditions noted below on the same page. Roku tells readers with questions about those terms to ask the owner of the software or technology instead. The third-party notices section that follows is where the page sets out those separate terms.

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Certain Roku products contain software components that are not owned by Roku and are subject to separate terms and conditions as noted below.

Separately Licensed Code

THIRD PARTY NOTICES

Qualifications & exceptions

• Only certain Roku products are covered, not every Roku product.
• The separate terms are the notices reproduced on this page; linked pages and files are not part of it.

Not stated here

• The page does not say which specific products contain which named component.

Content & IP Rights · Company practice

Open-source component files are listed by product on a separate page

Under the heading Open Source Software, the page points readers to a file listing at roku.com/ossfiles that is organized by product. The page itself reproduces no open-source licence text; it only directs the reader to that listing. A reader who needs the open-source terms for a particular product has to use that separate listing.

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Open Source Software

View files

(organized by product)

Qualifications & exceptions

• The files are organized by product, so the applicable set depends on the product the reader has.

Not stated here

• The open-source components and licence texts in the product-organized listing are not supplied, so they are not analyzed here.

Content & IP Rights · Context

Monotype holds the copyright to the device user-interface font

The Monotype notice says Monotype Imaging Inc. holds the copyright to the font used in the user interface of this device that utilizes the Roku operating system, which the same sentence calls the Product. It states who owns the copyright. The quoted notice does not grant a licence or set out conditions on the user's use of the font.

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MONOTYPE

Monotype Imaging Inc. holds the copyright to the font used in the user interface of this device that utilizes the Roku operating system ("Product").

Qualifications & exceptions

• The font is the one used in the user interface of a device that utilizes the Roku operating system.

Not stated here

• The licence terms under which the font is supplied to the user are not stated in this notice.

Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

AVC licence covers only personal, non-commercial consumer encoding and decoding

The MPEG-LA/AVC notice licenses the product under the AVC patent portfolio for a consumer's personal and non-commercial use, to encode video in the AVC standard and/or to decode AVC video that another consumer encoded in personal non-commercial activity or that came from a video provider licensed to provide AVC video. It adds that no licence is granted or implied for any other use. The permission therefore runs to those consumer personal uses, and the notice tells readers to obtain additional information from MPEG LA.

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MPEG-LA/AVC

THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED UNDER THE AVC PATENT PORTFOLIO LICENSE FOR THE PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE OF A CONSUMER TO (i) ENCODE VIDEO IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE AVC STANDARD ("AVC VIDEO") AND/OR (ii) DECODE AVC VIDEO THAT WAS ENCODED BY A CONSUMER ENGAGED IN A PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY AND/OR WAS OBTAINED FROM A VIDEO PROVIDER LICENSED TO PROVIDE AVC VIDEO.

NO LICENSE IS GRANTED OR SHALL BE IMPLIED FOR ANY OTHER USE.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Only the personal and non-commercial use of a consumer.
• Decoding is limited to AVC video encoded by a consumer in personal, non-commercial activity and/or obtained from a video provider licensed to provide AVC video.
• No licence is granted or implied for any other use.

Not stated here

• The notice does not define what counts as personal and non-commercial activity, or who applies the limit.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

PlayReady product cannot be used or distributed further without Microsoft licences

The Microsoft PlayReady notice says the Product is subject to certain intellectual property rights of Microsoft and cannot be used or distributed further without the appropriate licence or licences from Microsoft. That is a restriction on using or distributing the product further, not a licence grant from the notice itself. The notice also explains that content owners use PlayReady to protect their intellectual property, including copyrighted content.

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MICROSOFT PLAYREADY

This Product is subject to certain intellectual property rights of Microsoft and cannot be used or distributed further without the appropriate license(s) from Microsoft.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The restriction covers further use or distribution of the Product, absent the appropriate Microsoft licence(s).

Not stated here

• The notice does not identify which Microsoft licences are needed or how to obtain them.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Content owners can seek PlayReady revocation if the device fails to enforce restrictions

The notice says that if the Product fails to properly enforce restrictions on content usage, content owners may require Microsoft to revoke the Product's ability to consume PlayReady-protected content. The trigger is that enforcement failure, and the step is one that content owners may require of Microsoft. The notice adds that revocation should not affect unprotected content or content protected by other content access technologies.

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If this Product fails to properly enforce restrictions on content usage, content owners may require Microsoft to revoke this Product's ability to consume PlayReady-protected content.

Revocation should not affect unprotected content or content protected by other content access technologies.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies if the Product fails to properly enforce restrictions on content usage.
• Content owners may require the revocation; the notice does not say it follows automatically.
• Unprotected content and content protected by other content access technologies should not be affected.

Not stated here

• The notice does not say how an enforcement failure is determined or whether the user is told before revocation.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Declining a required PlayReady upgrade blocks content that needs it

The notice says content owners may require the user to upgrade PlayReady to access their content, and that if the user declines an upgrade, the user will not be able to access content that requires the upgrade. The stated consequence is limited to content that requires the upgrade. The demand comes from content owners, not from Roku alone.

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Content owners may require you to upgrade PlayReady to access their content. If you decline an upgrade, you will not be able to access content that requires the upgrade.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The consequence reaches only content that requires the upgrade.

Not stated here

• The notice does not say whether the upgrade is free or how it is delivered.

Content & IP Rights · Context

Cinecav is a Typodermic trademark with a 2022 copyright notice

The Typodermic notice identifies Cinecav as a trademark of Typodermic Fonts Inc., records a copyright of 2022 for Typodermic Fonts Inc. with all rights reserved, names Ray Larabie, and links to typodermicfonts.com. It states ownership and reserves rights. The quoted text sets out no licence terms for the font.

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TYPODERMIC

Cinecav is a trademark of Typodermic Fonts Inc. (c) 2022 Typodermic Fonts Inc. All rights reserved Ray Larabie

Qualifications & exceptions

• The copyright year recorded in the notice is 2022.

Not stated here

• The licence terms for the Cinecav font are not stated in this notice.

Content & IP Rights · Context

HEVC/H.265 products may be covered by Access Advance patent claims

The Access Advance notice says Roku products incorporating HEVC/H.265 technology may be covered by one or more claims of the HEVC patents listed at the Access Advance patent list page. It states possible patent coverage rather than a licence grant, and leaves the listed patents to an external page. Nothing in the notice says what a user must do about that coverage.

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ACCESS ADVANCE

Roku products incorporating HEVC/H.265 technology may be covered by one or more claims of the HEVC patents listed at Patent Lists - Access Advance.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Only Roku products incorporating HEVC/H.265 technology.
• The notice says the products may be covered; it does not assert that they are.

Not stated here

• The patents and claims are listed on an external Access Advance page that is not supplied.