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"There is nothing like getting paid over and over and over for the exact same item."
"Music is something that's forever, and if you create something that's forever that's making money and getting played forever, you deserve to be paid for that forever."
"Our protocol is fair and rewards the content creators for their pictures; it will allow you to set up auctions and give you full royalty benefits from any of your art transactions."
"Epic is waiving royalties on the first million dollars of game revenue, which is super cool."
"The royalties on these things suck but this is a really good way of building up your fan base."
"When I'm done with humans, they won't be able to say 'honey I'm home' without paying a royalty."
"You could keep making money off that song decade after decade."
"Imagine you can invest in your favorite song and then collect a royalty on that song."
"Brand licensing: Your brand, their products, ongoing royalties."
"John's estate continues to earn royalties from his music catalog merchandise and other intellectual properties."
"Authors on Campfire earn higher royalties than on any other platform, so when you buy a book there, you know you're mainly supporting the artist, not just some massive faceless corporation."
"The ogl effectively allows independent Publishers to use a basic amount of the DND content and their rules for their own projects and products without ever paying royalties."
"Royalties give the investor a way to benefit from that long-term rising price."
"I was on a Nick jr. show and I was in kindergarten campaign I still get paid for the thousand bucks a month."
"You're going to tell me that Bill Withers' 'Lean on Me' is worth .004 per stream? Same as..."
"NFTs allow for residual income coming from your art. No arguing about who owes what to who. The AI notices the sale and automatically deducts the percentage for the original owner."
"We're earning good money from our royalties now though, so that's nice."
"He just sat back in his LA mansion at the time smoking a stogie and cashed in those royalty checks, so I tried it more. The rest is history."
"Is there a different way to distribute royalties? The good news is yes there is a different way."
"Look at all those royalties you guys, holy crap, that's money."
"You would get the royalty over and over and over the more somebody uses and pays for that particular piece of content."
"You retain the rights to your designs, you're just selling them on their platform for royalties."
"Every time your lyric and melody is reproduced, someone needs a license for that and they need to pay you."
"For Amazon, your royalty is 60% for a paperback."
"We are in charge. If you want a contract, you have to pay the royalties to us because we are in control."
"Lancaster's name appeared above the film's title and he received 10% of the rather Boeing sized profits."
"His songs have created such a high impact that he can live off the rest of his life just through the royalties alone."
"Often the Osage collected in excess of ten million dollars a year as part of their 10% royalties."
"Let's finish on a happy note: the royalties from the famous musical My Fair Lady...have been devolved to the National Gallery of Ireland."
"Speak now is not valuable just from a sentimental value but financially as well due to every track on this album being exclusively penned by Taylor herself. The royalty and Publishing alone are worth a pretty penny."
"They don't charge you any money to collect your royalties."
"He ends up getting a pro shoe for Airwalk, making him $38,000 just in royalties off that shoe."
"Medium works on a royalty scheme, which means that you're not getting money from advertisers, you're getting money from your readers every time that a paying Medium member reads one of your book reviews."
"Sean Parker who started Napster and was on Spotify... this guy has $2 billion he made for figuring out how to steal royalties from artists."
"The band was given complete creative control and a high royalty rate, something that was pretty uncommon at the time."
"Keep a hundred percent of your streaming royalties for five dollars a month."
"My bestsellers like 'Infections and Inequalities' just rack up these huge royalties that I have all of them. I'm doing my part."
"Record deals are not bank loans. All loan money is paid back from the artist's royalty."
"A blockchain-based system would enable automatic distribution of royalties to all participants."
"How do I make my money? Royalties from my music, speaking engagements, brand endorsements, and investments."
"I can make a product, I can combine my skills with the manufacturer's skills, and it can be on store shelves and sold to consumers, earning royalty checks each quarter off of sales."
"A manufacturer can go into that folder at any time, see, 'Oh, this would work really great on this planner that we're designing,' pay me for it, and I get royalties on that."
"Nike doesn't have the best track record with these collabs where like they'll collab with like a brand or artist or whatever like that and like people don't really get royalties off of them and they become like this iconic expensive ass shoe."
"I wonder if BB gets royalties when people, whenever somebody does play the remix or Covergirl. I wonder."
"You're still obtaining royalties for the calls."
"They started doing royalties in answer to the fact that a lot of top talent was being pulled away from other companies."
"When's the last time you got paid for um the blanket license for your all your music to get paid on played on Tick Tock."
"That could lead to a doubling or even a tripling of your KDP royalties every month."
"Get your royalties and get paid, that's the most important thing."
"He's still making money off his music right now."
"Since he wrote more than half the bars on Straight Out of Compton, Ice Cube believed he should get more of the profits."
"We get a percentage of every sale, and that had never happened before, royalty deal. It had never happened, and it changed. Now, moving after that, every player who has a line gets a percentage."
"I appreciate the royalties that come from it."
"MasterCard is basically a license or a royalty on all future payments by credit."
"For the first time, we can actually own royalties, and we can have owning our piece, and if somebody sells it, we can have a percentage."
"I've done a million dollars in royalties from self-published books."
"Imagine if an artist was able to earn royalties perpetually for something that they created early on."
"I don't give a f... I want the effing royalties to what they're selling."
"That alone, that catalog of like royalties, you could buy a boat off of just like his royalties."
"A mechanical royalty is a government allotted royalty paid for the reproduction of the composition in a sound recording."
"How much is it worth? Well, currently 9.1 cents for physical pressings are owed to songwriters."
"If you enjoy writing, you could actually go ahead and publish your work and make money in royalties with zero cost to you."
"You think these Harry Potter royalties last forever? I'm on my last dime."
"I wrote my first best-selling book... I still get checks every month for that book."
"I still generate revenues from a catalogue that began in '03."
"We have gone from less than one percent digital in my royalties to only 17 percent print."
"When you sign to a label, they're keeping like essentially all your royalties."
"Royalties mean costlier seeds, royalties mean seed that is renewable by its very nature is now made non-renewable."
"Publishing is the most important. That's it, you need to collect that money."
"I have not seen a penny from the Thunder steel record I didn't get anything when I recorded my tracks in 1987 and 2018 I still haven't seen a nickel from it today."
"Royalties tend to be the best way to have a steady writing career."
"You can sell this over on KDP as a whole coloring book, you would actually have to create quite a few pages and then the cover as well, but you can make quite a decent amount of royalties through selling coloring books."
"It's now as good as new when it recorded historical memoirs with exclusive royal connections."
"I have to own my masters... I want to be like 60, 70 years old still getting a residual check."
"For an artist earning a steady income isn't always easy. But what if you earned money not just the first time you sold your artwork, but every time?"
"Every time there's a secondary sale... goes back to the original artist, which is amazing."
"The royalties pay indie artists more than any other music streaming site."
"We want to program these functions in such a way that the artist who dropped the album receives a royalty fee for each sale."
"The royalties that they pay Indie artists are more than any other music streaming site."
"It's a beautiful thing about publishing; it never stops paying."
"Should created people who do music or books or software be able to get a royalty for their stuff, or should people pirate it?"
"I am now a classic, but better than Shakespeare because I am a classic who still collects 15% royalties."
"I don't want to be a victim of Royal Association; I don't want my future to be controlled by my father."
"Licensing is when a company uses an artist's design for a set amount of time for a set product line and pays an artist for their work based on royalties."
"When Rich Harrison sampled the Chi-Lites song, it changed the guy's life. They were crazy in love, you know? There are still checks coming to this day for that."
"Every time someone uses a piece of music there for their story, they use it as background music, they get paid, and so can you."
"If you get a number one at Pop radio, the publishing check is bananas."
"I've been in a check every month since 2006 based on owning all my masters."
"Royalties are such phenomenal financial instruments."
"Spotify says they pay 70 cents of every dollar to the creators."
"The holy grail for a TV producer or TV person showrunner is getting that syndication deal and getting like endless royalty checks."
"I'm also bullish on the artistic side if secondaries and royalties can be sustained."
"The passive income strategy... refers to things like online businesses and authority websites, e-commerce sites, royalty income."
"There's no one that got screwed more than the person who invented the wheel and is not getting royalties."
"Blockchain would help with metadata and real-time royalty payouts."