Her work on their behalf included securing suitable translations, sound productions with leading actors, and full royalties.
Others seem opposed on the grounds that bundling would deprive authors of the full royalties they receive on the sale of each book – print or digital.
The company has admitted that that is partly because it has been unable to collect full royalties from companies in China.
Riddle added that whenever "4' 33" " was recorded by other artists, as it had been in 1993, by Frank Zappa, for a Cage tribute album, full royalties were paid.
Mr. Markey and other Democrats recently introduced legislation that would pressure companies to pay full royalties when energy prices are high, regardless of what their leases allow.
It is not clear how different the new offer is – the Australian reports that Adani would be asked to pay "several" million dollars a year before repaying, as before, the balance of full royalties with interest.
The 1995 law, according to Republicans and Democrats alike, was supposed to include an escape clause: in any year when average spot prices for oil or gas climbed above certain threshold levels, companies would pay full royalties instead.
The Interior Department, in a written response to questions, said the actual cost of its incentives would be much lower than $40 billion because most leases in the Gulf of Mexico include an escape clause that requires companies to pay full royalties if prices are above $34 a barrel.
The works of Austen, Stevenson and Conan Doyle are out of copyright – UK law, in most cases, gives estates control of the texts for 70 years after the writer's death – so latter-day authors following these novelists claim copyright and full royalties and, in theory, have absolute liberty.
Breakfast at Tiffany's and bottles of bubbles are a few of Ariana Grande's favourite things, but hopefully full royalties are not.
