If you can create that, you effectively own a license to print money.
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"It's like having a license to print money," he told Racked in 2015.
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DIPRA wants to limit competition because they know it's their license to print money.
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For the creators, the account's success was "basically a license to print money," he said.
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Treasure trove Since "Hamilton" hit Broadway, anything connected to Alexander Hamilton is a license to print money.
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To ask why Mary Poppins Returns exists would be to ask why Disney would want a license to print money.
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Once you've got a person hooked on your product — it's very much like an addiction — you have a license to print money.
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Circumventing the Google Play store wasn't exactly a gamble for Epic, given the fact that Fortnite is essentially a license to print money.
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Unsurprisingly, hit alchemizers Max Martin and Shellback cowrote the tune with Timberlake: Line those three names up in the songwriting credits and it's practically a license to print money.
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But YA dystopias — the books that just a few years ago appeared to grant publishers a license to print money — have not experienced the same sort of sales bump.
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And SEGA, hell, a SEGA archive at the press of a button, with everything from OutRun 2 and its 1986 forefather, through the Streets of Rage and Sonic series, to Space Channel 5 and Seaman and Shenmue: that is a bona-fide license to print money.
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Following her electoral defeat, Thomas was appointed head of Metro Toronto's licensing commission, and continued to serve on the Toronto Licensing Commission until 2003. In 1996, she coauthored a report investigating problems with the city's process for licensing taxis."A license to print money". Toronto Star, March 14, 1998.
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" In a DVD review for the individual episode DVD release Spongicus, Roy Hrab of DVD Verdict gave this season a negative review and said that "In my previous SpongeBob reviews I have commented that series has lost its edge. This offering does nothing to change my opinion. But what the heck do I know? Clearly, the show continues to maintain a large following and the franchise is a license to print money for Nickelodeon.
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If the cost of switching away from a de facto standard to a new alternative exceeds the benefit gained by the earliest market participants who make that switch, then the market will tend to become locked into the de facto standard, with its market share approaching 100%. Markets that are highly interconnected are more resistant to change than less interconnected markets. Lock-in tends to make a de facto standard impervious to incremental competition, such that only a disruptive innovation can displace it. Owning a locked-in de facto standard can be a license to print money for a very long time.
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