Google also recently reached a settlement with French artists, composers and music publishers, under which it agreed to pay royalties for works streamed via YouTube.
Academics as a rule do not write their books to make money – in fact most receive only token royalties for their work.
Despite having conceived — but, inconveniently, not necessarily having perfected patents for — dozens of revolutionary devices, Tesla during his lifetime failed to receive proper credit, or royalties, for theoretical work that made possible wireless power transmission and X-rays.
The lawsuit claims that the producers continued to use about 25 percent of her original script contributions in the musical, but that she is not being paid royalties for that work.
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.
The agreement allows PRS for Music members featured on MySpace to receive royalties for their work.
Blackie paid £25 for 24 paintings with accompanying verses, but it wasn't until publication of Flower Fairies of the Summer in 1925 that Barker received royalties for her work.
Although RCA executive Joan Deary was later full of praise for the producer's song choices and the quality of the recordings, Moman, to his fury, received neither credit on the records nor royalties for his work.
A jury in California yesterday ordered Genentech Inc. to pay $300 million to the City of Hope National Medical Center, saying the company had deprived the hospital of royalties it deserved for work that helped lay the foundation for the biotechnology industry.
A jury in a California state court has ordered Genentech to pay $300 million to the City of Hope National Medical Center, saying the company had deprived the hospital of royalties it deserved for work that helped lay the foundation for the biotechnology industry.
