It forgoes dealing with major chains or online distributors in favor of paying its authors higher royalties.

The move comes as hotel companies seek to steer more traffic to their Web sites and away from third-party online distributors.

Rovi also provides entertainment metadata on movies, music, books and games to online distributors and other entertainment portals.

Ms. Fiorito and Mr. Schenck met in the spring of 2000 while working for AtomFilms, an online distributor of short films.

Bruce Livingstone is a Canadian entrepreneur who founded iStockphoto, an online distributor of stock photography.

Clicker Clatter has an online distributor and can be seen at SnagFilms.com.

The game was released through Steam, an online distributor, as part of their Free to Play catalog on September 30, 2011.

Finally: "Comcast may not, with certain narrow exceptions, require programmers or video distributors to agree to licensing terms that seek to limit online distributors' access to content."

It was brought by 1-800 Contacts, an online distributor of various brands of contact lenses against WhenU SaveNow, a maker of advertising software.