As an example, he said, production and royalty figures can be measured against maps to see if they agree.
UK authors on average earned just £4,000 from writing last year on royalty figures of less than 10%.
Beats Music has often been hailed as friendly to music artists and striving to make music streaming profitable for artists; the royalty figures from the report suggest a different story.
The Slesingers had accused Disney of breach of contract, alleging that the Californian media conglomerate failed to disclose accurate royalty figures for sales of merchandise and that Pooh revenue was intermingled with earnings from characters such as Mickey Mouse.
"Commentators can conjure ridiculous royalty figures out of the air," Leonard wrote in The Guardian recently, "and imply that our afternoons are spent in an infinity pool with trained dolphins bringing us goblets of chilled Bolly, but in real life the dog has to be walked and the kids have to be fed".
The ruling, according to Arti K. Rai, a professor at the Duke University School of Law, "fits into a long line of recent cases in which courts are squarely rejecting attempts by patentees to claim high reasonable royalty figures when the patent in question is a just a small piece of the product".
Commentators can conjure ridiculous royalty figures out of the air and imply that our afternoons are spent in an infinity pool with trained dolphins bringing us goblets of chilled Bolly, but in real life the dog has to be walked, and the kids have to be fed and ferried around, and there are exam results and ageing relatives and the next novel to fret about.
The people he associated with were foreign royalty, figures in the film business now largely forgotten and various journalists of the day.
The two Russian skaters reminded us that the Russians are still the royalty of figure skating, despite the ugly drama of Monday night in the pairs championship.
Subjects include Siamese royalty, religious figures and residences, politicos, group social scenes, theatre folk, street scenes, musicians, and other views of Bangkok and Thailand.
