[ralferoo]

> I'm not sure what differences you see between contracts and licenses.

The licence is the permission to do something that without the licence you would not be permitted to do.

The contract is the agreement between the licensor and licensee as to the specific terms that surround the granting of that licence.

Consider a company licensing music - company A and B might both have an identical licence to use a particular song for any purpose, but the contracts they agreed for payments could be very different based on expected usage.

Breaking the terms of the licence is using the thing in a way that the licence doesn't expressly permit, e.g. if you have a licence to use any song from a company's entire catalogue for a TV show, but you then use it for a different show or in a film. Another example: I've worked on a computer game where we had a licence to use a particular song in-game, but not in promotional material.

Breaking the terms of the contract is failing to uphold your obligations, e.g. failing to pay an agreed annual fee or the correct amount of royalties.