Sentence examples for royalties from inspiring English sources

It only sold a few hundred copies: enough to make the press happy, and to give me annual royalties of a fiver.

Harvey, who does not receive any royalties for the song, says: "We sold 18 million records and the frustrating thing for me is that I have to sit there every Christmas and listen to myself while I don't even have the money for a Christmas dinner.

Phil will probably wish more of the royalties from this song were his when he has to chuck a load of cash at Stevie Wonder, whose My Cherie Amour is sampled here with an almost heroic lack of creativity.

Credit also goes to composer Leonard Bernstein, who gave up a quarter-percentage of his royalties so Nixon could be compensated for what turned out to be the best-selling album of the 1960s, and the one with the longest run at No 1 on the Billboard album charts – 54 weeks.

There are many twists in the plot, including her decision to take her revenge on Saint-Exupéry's haughty family by leaving her half-share of all the writer's royalties (as well as her house) to her gardener-chauffeur, Jose Fructuoso Martinez, who owns a mass of documents that can only be published when the quarrelling heirs come to some agreement.

Müller thinks it means trouble: "the total cost of patent royalties that vendors will have to cough up per unit of an Android-based device will likely become substantial and could result in a cost disadvantage for Android as compared to Windows Phone, for which Microsoft provides a patent guarantee that gives vendors peace of mind and predictable licensing costs".

While stars like Deborah Kerr, Audrey Hepburn and Natalie Wood received the applause and record royalties for their work in musicals such as The King and I, My Fair Lady and West Side Story, it was Nixon's soprano who sang their songs uncredited, often after signing a contract never to disclose the ruse.

Or think about music: Periscoping a song or multiple songs from a gig would in theory be a "performance" for which royalties are due, although the questions of who'd be liable for them and whether any music rightsholders or collecting societies would be willing to pursue them remains to be settled.

His home is not in Oxford, but in south London, where he lives in a one-bedroom council flat, scratching a living of around £8,000 a year from journalism, research work, speaking engagements, and slim royalties from his books.

Adani says its coal projects will deliver 10,000 jobs and $22bn in taxes and royalties.

6. AGENDA FOR THE NEXT MEETING 1. Thom Yorke is still threatening a PowerPoint presentation on Spotify royalties.