Note: renegotiating contracts to lower those royalties is one tactic, but a risky one given the artist-payouts controversies.
If you're a business traveler, you're among royalty: You are one of 12percentt of passengers on the flight, but you represent 60percentt of an airline's revenues.
And when people hear the B-side of the single, God Save the Royalties, which is one of our songs backwards, it should irritate... .. Wendy: "We're just doing to Warhol what he would do to bananas".
Rita Carpenter was born into Texas royalty: she was one of two daughters of C. Hunt Carpenter, a self-made millionaire who founded the Shamrock Insurance Company, in San Antonio, and discovered natural gas on one of his ranches.
Ed Stelmach sparked the Wildrose counter-revolution because, for many Albertans, simply suggesting that maybe oil companies should pay the province marginally more in royalties is basically one step removed from Stalinism.
In three reports delivered to Congress on Wednesday, the department's inspector general, Earl E. Devaney, found wrongdoing by a dozen current and former employees of the Minerals Management Service, which collects about $10 billion in royalties annually and is one of the government's largest sources of revenue other than taxes.
Then he adds, suddenly serious: 'You know, a percentage of the royalties is going to one of the charities that sustained us in Limerick, the St Vincent de Paul, and to Concern International.
A block away on busy Karadjordjeva Street, next to the Hotel Bristol – where royalty and Rockefellers once stayed – is one of Serbia's architectural masterpieces, a heavy 1907 art nouveau block designed by Nikola Nestorović and Andra Stevanović, known as Geozavod because it once housed the Institute of Geophysics.
The move is a sign of how the music streaming business, with its royalty payouts and thin margins, is one that needs scale to work.
As one historian states, it was "one of those defeats of royalty from which it never recovered".
