"He was like spoken-word royalty to us," she said of Mr. Scott-Heron.
In the words of one contributor to the Detroit News: "Royalty is so retro".
As always, the most important expense for Pandora is content acquisition — in other words, music royalties.
Stella McCartney, the Chloe designer, recently commissioned a Black Sabbath denim jacket with studded lightning bolts ($400) and bought two sequined tank tops emblazoned with the words "Rock Royalty" ($100 each).
Howley, Haviland and Company published the song, giving Sterling credit for the words, but paying royalties to Dresser for use of the melody.
"In all the time I talked to her every day, we talked about Hungary and everything, but she never said a word about her being royalty," said Tom Webster, a Merrill Lynch broker.
Is Rose still "suffering an apparent attack of arrogance and ego," in the words of a 2004 royalties suit filed by Slash and bassist McKagan?
In other words, lease sales and royalties from drilling in the refuge, a pristine landscape considered one of Alaska's crown jewels, would, at best, recoup roughly 0.075 percent of the debt expected to be generated by the tax bill.
After dinner, Nixon awarded Ellington the Medal of Freedom, with the words "In the royalty of American music, no man swings more or stands higher than the Duke".
In other words, if the royalty fee is set high, the franchisor will be better off not exercising the real options and instead enjoying profits from royalty fee.
