Quotes About Royalties

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.

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.

You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.

I think it's important to find out who all the writers were and make sure everyone gets a fair cut - but the music industry hasn't really got payment of people right at all, to be honest.

Of course, neither David or myself ever saw a penny from them; it was the early days of merchandising.

One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it?'

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because when two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.

Every time someone downloads a picture, the photographers get paid about 30% of what we charge.

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for the right to drill on public lands or in federal waters.

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.

I am a co-writer of 'Survivor,' so there's publishing that I'll receive for some of the records.

People think I got rich out of 'Swan ,but I didn't at all: it's the royalties from 'Oliver' and 'My Fair Lady' that have kept me going.

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.

I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.

In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.

Steve did a prepayment on royalties to make sure we had the resources to stay in business

Copyright is not the thing that makes artists money, it's only for their brokers and distributors.

One of California's largest exports for royalties is creative content.

Music copyright and licensing laws haven't kept up with technology or the times. The Music Modernization Act fixes that with a comprehensive set of reforms that will help musicians receive royalties they are owed while ensuring the public has access to that music.

I'll go to the movies and hear 'Angel From Montgomery' in some film, and nobody ever even told me about it. They don't tell you your stuff is going to be in a movie. They don't have to, so they don't tell you. You get paid eventually.