RF licenses can not be given on an exclusive basis. The user can therefore use the image in several projects without having to purchase any additional licenses. In photography and the illustration industry, it refers to a copyright license where the user has the right to use the picture without many restrictions based on one-time payment to the licensor. Examples of royalty-free standards include DisplayPort, VGA, VP8, and Matroska. Most open standards are royalty-free, and many proprietary standards are royalty-free as well. Royalty-free standards do not include any 'per-port' or 'per-volume' charges or annual payments for the actual implementation of the standard, even though the text of the actual specification is typically protected by copyright and needs to be purchased from the standards body.

Examples of such royalties-based standards include IEEE 1394, HDMI, and H.264/ MPEG-4 AVC. With millions of devices sold each year, the royalties can amount to several millions of dollars, which is a significant burden for the manufacturer. These royalties are typically charged on a 'per port'/'per device' basis, where the manufacturer of end-user devices has to pay a small fixed fee for each device sold, and also include a substantial annual fixed fee. Many computer industry standards, especially those developed and submitted by industry consortiums or individual companies, involve royalties for the actual implementation of these standards. Royalty-free ( RF) material subject to copyright or other intellectual property rights may be used without the need to pay royalties or license fees for each use, per each copy or volume sold or some time period of use or sales. Type of copyright licence with no royalties or per-use fees

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