"Royalty fees" refers to payments made to the owner or holder of a rights or property, typically relating to intellectual property such as music, images, or inventions. In simple terms, it is a fee that someone has to pay in order to use or benefit from someone else's creation or property.
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We charge a modest
royalty fee for each program, which is paid when you order certificates from us.
It also collects an ongoing
royalty fee of 6 percent and a 2 percent ad fund charge.
To be able to use these rights, you will pay an initial «franchise and territory» fee, as well as a small
ongoing royalty fee.
Use Unreal 4, and you'll owe Epic a 5 %
royalty fee if you make over $ 3,000.
Not only do we provide free marketing materials, you'll also find we have among the
lowest royalty fees and the highest commissions in the industry.
For a limited time, special development incentives are available, including
reduced royalty fees in the early years and a $ 10,000 local store marketing contribution by the company for qualifying franchisees.
Usually royalty fees are a percentage of sales, but some companies may instead charge a flat fee on a weekly, monthly or yearly basis.
Typically, you have to pay licensing or
royalty fees for any photos or artwork you want to use in your own work.
Instead, the people behind Pokemon Reorchestrated apparently have a license from the company to use this music, and
pay royalty fees for the songs through their distributor Loudr.
Apple is said to have been paying an outright fee of $ 18 for Qualcomm modems along with a 5 % of the iPhone's sale price
as royalties fee.
BlackBerry's agreement to use Qualcomm's technology in its smartphones involved a bulk prepayment of
royalty fees based on the expected sales volume of the devices, according to the San Diego Union Tribune.
Most food franchisors, like MTY, rely
on royalty fees paid by franchisees and so lack assets they can depreciate to offset taxes.
Sounds good, but this means that you, as an author, will earn much less
in royalty fees as both the retailer and the aggregator may (not always, it depends on their pricing model) take their cut.
Meanwhile e Ink received a record high
royalties fee at NT$ 400 million by licensing Hydis» patents to Sharp, LG Display and other panel makers to make high - resolution LCD panels that are partly used in Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics patents.»
The five per cent
royalty fee remains, but it means that everyone from games developers to educators and consumers can access this high - end game engine — and its source code — for absolutely nothing.
Audiobook narrator freelancers are also available on Fiverr and other micro job sites with the possibility of
splitting royalty fees as payment.
In return for a
monthly royalty fee, franchisees receive significant support from their franchisor.
Qualcomm is still suffering from Apple's
royalty fee cut - off, but the rest of its business looked relatively healthy.
It costs a $ 25,000 licensing fee and 3.5
percent royalty fee to pay for a franchise, but Business Insider noted a typical restaurant franchise costs about $ 1 million or more to open, though prices vary due to location.
Meanwhile, the Hsinchu - based company said it received a record
high royalties fee at NT$ 400 million by licensing Hydis» patents to Sharp, LG Display and other panel makers to make high - resolution LCD panels that are partly used in Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics patents.
Qualcomm must refund nearly $ 815 million in
overpaid royalty fees to BlackBerry, according to the settlement of an arbitration action announced on Wednesday.
Should the gadget go to market, ADLE
negotiates royalty fees and splits the royalties with the inventor (or the company spinning off a product line).
Although the master
franchisee royalty fee is less than a typical franchise royalty, some of the risk is deferred, and a local flavor is imparted in every individual international market.
Instead of reinvesting in Canadian R and D, Canadian companies are paying
IP royalty fees.
Despite the recession, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory has seen increases in revenue from franchise fees and
royalty fees over the last fiscal year, and as such has a lot of hope for the future.
In addition, when customers are few, retailers might
save royalty fees by not playing music, and because fast music in crowded stores motivated customers to buy more low - priced items, managers should prepare for a run on impulse purchases.
For the full year, E Ink
expects royalty fees — a swing factor on its bottom line — to tumble between 15 and 20 percent annually, a bigger contraction than the company's previous estimate of 10 to 15 percent, E Ink chief financial officer Lloyd Chen (陳樂群) told investors.
«Over the last 30 years, Pet Supplies Plus has focused on growing our company through establishing a proven path for successful franchising, offering a supportive corporate team and
competitive royalty fees,» said Chris Rowland, CEO of Pet Supplies Plus, which has headquarters in Livonia, Mich. «We're excited to have moved up in the ranks of Entrepreneur's 2018 Franchise 500 and are thankful for our dedicated franchisees who continue to make this possible.»
Nintendo can do all this without damaging their IP and
earn royalty fees whilst they're at it.
As to the reason why these games have never been imported over here into the west - this is largely due to the fact that Sega tried with its most famous one, World Championship Football WCCF in 2005, but were hit with
massive royalty fee issues, with the price to use the players» images considerable higher than they are in Japan.
The new Policy
eliminates royalty fees, permissions and license agreements for those reproducing Rauschenberg artwork images for «noncommercial, scholarly and / or transformative purposes,» according to a foundation statement.
He can push coal subsidies through Congress in the form of direct spending, low - interest loans and loan forgiveness, tax breaks and tax exemptions, and
discounted royalty fees for the right to mine on federal land.
One sees the temptation for government in this line of the story, though: «Other European countries... were interested in following Germany's initiative because of the potential tax revenues these countries would earn from the
proposed royalty fees.»
You pay us a
modest royalty fee for the New York PIRP course when you order your certificates.
The advantage for Lenovo is that it can preload Microsoft's services on their smartphones without having to
make royalty fees as payment to the latter.
As a result, according to its recently released quarterly financial report, Cendant revenue from franchise
royalty fees increased $ 12.3 million (15 percent) compared with the same period last year.
Now let's figure out how much this will cost the public to cover all of the expenses and overhead paid one way or another by way of transaction fees, etc, that REALTORS currently have to pay: List fee Change listing detail fee Change list price fee Upload picture fee Automatic notification subscription fee Open house ad list fee Extend listing fee Cancel fee Terminate fee In addition: board administration fee association fee council fee MLS technical fees MLS user fees
MLS Royalty fees etc..
So if you would like to stop the madness, you may want to check out Draft2Digital, which has a similar business concept: aggregate your eBooks to the major vendors like Amazon, iTunes, Kobo, and Nook for a
small royalty fee (15 %).
Foremost Insurance Company
pays royalty fees to AARP for the use of its intellectual property.
The increase was primarily driven by $ 8 million of higher development margin, $ 8 million from the settlement of a dispute with a former service provider, $ 5 million of higher resort management and other services revenues net of expenses, the reversal of a $ 2 million charge related to the company's interest in an equity method investment in a joint venture project and $ 2 million of
lower royalty fees.
Aventure members pay fees, but Vogt says they are «not comparable to fees paid under a franchise agreement and with
ongoing royalty fees.»