royalties
Payments for licensing
Royalties are payments made to owners of intellectual property—authors, musicians, inventors, or patent holders—for each use or sale of their work.
A novelist receives royalties on book sales; a songwriter earns royalties when their song is streamed or performed.
The term extends to payments for extracting natural resources: oil royalties, mineral royalties.
Royalty in the singular usually means royal status or royal persons collectively.
Exclusive reproduction rights
- patentObvious; inventor's monopoly
- trademarkRegistered commercial identifier
- licensingGranting official permission
- intellectual propertyLegal rights over inventions
infringement · fair use · exclusive rights · proprietary · work-for-hire · assignment · sublicense · derivative works
Payments for usage rights
- residualsOngoing compensation for rebroadcasts
- advancesForward movements or progress
- percentagesFractions of a hundred
- pointsUnits of tally
backend · net profits · quarterly payments · recoupment · escalations · minimums · guarantees · flat fee
Permission to reproduce content
Claim to underground resources
- lease paymentsPeriodic charges for use
- acreageAmount of land owned
- drilling rightsAuthorization to extract underground resources
- water rightsLegal allocation of H2O
Male crowned ruler
- queenMost powerful chess piece
- princeRoyal family male
- princessMonarch's daughter or heir
- crownSovereign's ornamental headpiece
throne · sovereign · regent · dynasty · coronation · palace · court · heir
Encoding objects for transmission
- publisherCompany releasing books
- literary agentAuthor's publishing intermediary
- hardcoverRigid-bound book format
- paperbackBook with flexible cover
copyright
Exclusive reproduction rights
- patentObvious; inventor's monopoly
- trademarkRegistered commercial identifier
- licensingGranting official permission
intellectual property · infringement · fair use · exclusive rights · proprietary · work-for-hire · assignment · sublicense · derivative works · clearance
licensing fees
Payments for usage rights
- residualsOngoing compensation for rebroadcasts
- advancesForward movements or progress
- percentagesFractions of a hundred
points · backend · net profits · quarterly payments · recoupment · escalations · minimums · guarantees · flat fee · collection
publishing rights
Permission to reproduce content
airplay · radio play · cover songs · sampling · co-writing
mineral rights
Claim to underground resources
- lease paymentsPeriodic charges for use
- acreageAmount of land owned
- drilling rightsAuthorization to extract underground resources
king
Male crowned ruler
crown · throne · sovereign · regent · dynasty · coronation · palace · court · heir · succession
serialization
Encoding objects for transmission
- publisherCompany releasing books
- literary agentAuthor's publishing intermediary
- hardcoverRigid-bound book format
- income sourcessalary, wages, hourly pay, wage, commission
- entertainment businessrecording contract, movie deal, book deal, development deal, talent deal
- Revenue Sharingcommissions, residuals, licensing fees, pooled tips, sales commissions
- business termsfranchising, revenue stream, board meeting, gross margin, markdown
- publishingpublishers, editors, editor, publishing house, books
- incomesalary, earnings, income, wages, pay
royaltiesflat fee
Unchanging service charge
lump sum · one-time payment · buyout · fixed payment · upfront payment
royaltieslicensing fees
Payments for usage rights
royalty payments · usage fees · licensing costs · rent · dues
royaltieswages
Payment for work
work for hire · commission · salary · hourly pay · active income
- music royaltiesPayments to artists for use
- copyright royaltiesPayments for using protected works
- streaming royaltiesPayments per digital play
- oil royaltiesFees paid to resource owners
- film royaltiesPayments for cinematic use
- artist royaltiesPayments to creators per use
royal, royalty, regal, royally, regality, royalist, royalism, royalists, antiroyalist