The phrase "a hefty royalty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a significant payment or percentage given to an author, artist, or inventor for their work or intellectual property.
Example: "The author was thrilled to receive a hefty royalty from the sales of her bestselling novel."
Alternatives: "a substantial royalty" or "a significant royalty".
China's effort to develop its own technical standards for the next generation of DVD's appears to be an effort to avoid hefty royalty payments to patent-holding corporations in Japan, the United States and Europe.
The winning team can look forward to years of hefty royalty payments and a good head start in the consumer market, assuming that the brawl won't turn consumers off DVD altogether.
This is because – unlike the traditional radio world – audience is expense for online radio with a hefty performance royalty that mounts each time a consumer listens to a song.
Has Sony, once again, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by believing it can continue to charge a premium for its proprietary technology?Certainly, the hefty royalty fees, proprietary authoring software and laughable anti-piracy system add disproportionately to Blu-ray's cost and inconvenience.
Although it should be noted that an included FM transmitter would kill off more than a few products from 3rd party companies that pay hefty royalty fees to Apple and Apple likes its money.
The star of the Andy Hardy films and Hollywood's highest paid actor in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Rooney was a product of the industry's old studio system and was not entitled to hefty royalty payments, Augustine said.
The service is popular, with some 90 million users, but it has been bogged down by hefty royalty fees.
Five million farmers are suing Monsanto for $7.7 billion because the company has been reportedly taxing the farmers into financial ruin with hefty royalty charges.
