One artist, who had worldwide hits in the 80s, had a look at his old record contract and discovered that any of his music distributed through "wireless telephony" was considered a licence and so would command a 50% royalty rate.
The Greek forces were, as agreed by the Allied congress, under the overall command of Spartan royalty in the person of Pausanias, who was the regent for Leonidas' young son, Pleistarchus, his cousin.
Thanks to mining and gas royalties, they command a big chunk of public money.
A European tour followed these early successes in 1844, during which he gave public appearances, as well as private command performances before European royalty, including a young Queen Victoria.
The military high command argued that continuing the royalty payment would avoid what they called the politicization of the armed forces budget.
Running an ad-supported music site can be challenging because of the royalties that record labels command for the right to stream their music, notes David Card, vice president and research director at JupiterResearch in New York.
And, as Lewis's experience demonstrates, the performance-royalty rates that songwriters command from streaming services such as Pandora, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Prime, and Apple Music are in most cases far lower than the ones they get for terrestrial-radio plays — the entire royalty payout, remember.
Despite the high price their services will command (mostly in the form of extensive royalties), game publishers may well enter into a heated bidding war for the Houser brothers in the hopes of seizing the next Grand Theft Auto phenomenon.
Though once appraised almost exclusively based on their royalty streams, mobile-related patents now command healthy strategic premiums.
In "corporate comics," the publisher is the major beneficiary, though writers of popular series can collect royalties, and the most popular writers can command higher pay.
