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royalties

  • plural
    of royalty.
    royalty
    noun
    royal persons collectively.

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Only Ross Cameron, co-founder of Lyric Capital Group, a private equity firm focused on music royalties, housed on four, responded.

From Slate Sep. 18, 2026

SB Energy plans to pay SoftBank royalties of 1% of its gross profit under its trademark license agreement with the firm.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

"It's undoubtedly better than before. Before, this oil wasn't being extracted; if no one extracts it, no one pays royalties, and no one profits from it," he said.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

Without her example, would Taylor Swift have stood up to the hedge funds who bought her back catalogue, re-recording her biggest hits to rob them of royalties?

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Emily, James, and Matthew would split 10 percent of the royalties earned from the sale of the book, to be deposited into a scholarship fund for each of them.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman