Although the Internet has proved a challenge to the business practices of record labels and music creators, the performing rights organizations recognized almost immediately its potential as a major source of royalty revenues.
His patent on curium never proved commercially viable because of the element's short half-life, but americium is commonly used in household smoke detectors and thus provided a good source of royalty income to Seaborg in later years.
One of the most rapidly expanding new sources of performance royalties, the executives say, is cellphone ring tones, digitized melodies that play on mobile phones.
Having won an audience for his music after years of playing it in lofts and galleries, Mr. Glass maintained exclusive performing rights to his scores on the theory that concerts were a better source of income than royalties.
Moreover, Spotify's royalties represent an indispensable source of revenue contrarily to Deezer's royalties.
The division of royalties was a source of conflict between band members, who earned royalties on a per-song basis.
For students, this is much cheaper alternative to paying the typical $1,000 or $1,500 for an online course and, for publishers, it's a nice little source of incremental revenue, thanks to royalties.
Oral histories written down in the 19th century provide a rich source of information about the rise of royalty.
For most Londoners, the Thames functioned as a thoroughfare, a bustling working river and a source of entertainment, with lord mayors, royalty and people from every class travelling by river, and watermen rowing aristocrats and merchants to their destinations.
The software giant wants open-source software users to fork over money in the form of royalties.
Still, the tension with the United States remains a sideshow compared with what may unfold in Bolivia if changes are made in relation to petroleum royalties, a major source of income for both the eastern provinces and the central government.
