royalty payments
Earnings from licensing
Royalty payments are fees paid to the owner of intellectual property, natural resources, or other assets for the right to use them.
Authors receive royalties based on book sales, musicians on streams and radio play, patent holders on licensed technology.
Oil and mineral rights generate royalties for landowners.
The term comes from the historical right of monarchs to a share of extracted resources: The contract specified quarterly royalty payments of 15% of net revenue.
- copyrightExclusive reproduction rights
- patentObvious; inventor's monopoly
- passive incomeMoney earned without labor
- trademarkRegistered commercial identifier
- royaltiesOngoing payments to creators
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- franchisesfranchise, Star Wars, franchising, franchises, franchisor
- royaltiesmusic royalties, streaming royalties, artist royalties, oil royalties, copyright fees
- customs valuationcustoms valuation, declared value, valuation, appraisement, invoice price
- music rightsmusic copyright, copyright, music rights, music royalties, performance rights
- music royaltiesmusic royalties, streaming royalties, performance rights, music rights, music licensing
- patent licensinglicensing agreement, licensor, licensee, licensing fees, sublicensing
royalty paymentsflat fee
Unchanging service charge
lump sum · one-time payment · buyout · upfront payment · fixed price
royalty paymentswork for hire
Creation owned by commissioner
public domain · royalty-free · open source · creative commons · freeware