Instead Mrs. Clinton should take her payment in royalties based on the book sales.

As explained by Greenberger, "DC pays a royalty based on a percentage of the cover price to writers, pencillers, and inkers to all material published prior to 1976 and after 1997.

For his part, the franchisee makes a payment to the franchisor for the rights to a particular area and a royalty based upon sales expressed as a percentage of sales.

The dam currently supplies about 30 m3/s of water to South Africa, which pays Lesotho $35 million per year, plus a variable royalty based on calculated water usage benefits.

Facing strong criticism from the House ethics committee - although no finding of legal misconduct - Mr. Gingrich decided to return the payment and accept a $1 fee followed by royalties based on sales.

The agreement includes an undisclosed payment to Mrs. Fields, as well as royalties based on the value of gross sales in the stores.

Michael explains that, first, the hundred and fifty thousand is an advance on royalties based on eighty percent of total sales.

(The copyright office proposal would, however, force conventional broadcasters that simulcast on the Web to pay royalties, based on their Web audience, at half the rate of Internet-only stations.)

When manufacturing costs were high, performers were persuaded to accept royalties based on LP rather than CD list prices to help establish the format.

In return, Russia would get a share of the oil produced by the foreign companies, a royalty based on production and taxes on the companies' profits.