Zitat des Tages über Lizenzgebühren / Royalties:
I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.
Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.
It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.
The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.
You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.
I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.
In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.
Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.
I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.
If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
Skating was popular, but it wasn't mainstream. It had this underground following, and you could go on tours, win decent prize money, and make royalties from signature products - that's how I came to buy a house when I was a senior in high school.
Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.
Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
The business model - where books can be returned, and where a 50% sell-through is considered acceptable - is archaic and wasteful. Writers get small royalties, little say in how their books are marketed and sold, and simple things like cover and title approval are unheard of unless you're a huge bestseller.
I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copies of books sold, or how many books that I've written. I could look these things up; I have no interest in them. I don't know how much money I have. There are a lot of things I just don't care about.
Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.