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Payments for radio broadcasts of songs, called royalties, have been a source of disagreement within the recording industry for decades.

It is now over three years since this agreement was signed and to date no royalties have been paid".

In Japan, Goto's book has sold more than two hundred thousand copies, and, since the earthquake in March, all royalties have been dedicated to tsunami relief.

From 78 r.p.m. records to the age of iTunes, artists' record royalties have been counted as a percentage of a sale price.

"The main problem of the region is not the drought but corruption because royalties have been stolen for many years and the public works needed to face natural events that are foreseeable were not done," Ordóñez said.

The N.I.H. can collect royalties from successful products to help offset the costs of the research, but so far these royalties have been small, amounting to an estimated $135 million in the last fiscal year from 870 licenses, with the bulk of the money coming from a small number of drugs.

A federal lawsuit that has been closely watched in the music industry because of its potential effect on the contentious issue of digital royalties has been settled.

But Rafferty learned that their royalties had been filched, Egan returned to Scotland, and Stealers Wheel collapsed before the release of the album Right Or Wrong in 1975.

Mark McKechnie, an industry analyst with American Technology Research, said the lawsuit and Nokia's refusal to pay royalties had been a considerable drag on Qualcomm's stock.

These revealed that the original treaties underpinning the royalties had been signed in the most dubious of circumstances and, more importantly, related to a part of Zambia where there was no copper.

The increase in such royalties has been the music industry's "one saving grace," in the view of Carey Ramos, a lawyer for the National Music Publishers Associationn, which represents music publishers and songwriters.