The Roman Catholic Church, however, eventually used the Anno Domini dating scheme based on the birth of Christ on both the general public and royalty.

In the scheme, God ordained the ministry, which was necessary to ordain the royalty and nobility, who settled privileges on the more prestigious commoners, or burghers ( bourgeoisie ) ; hence the frequent references to the peasantry of Europe as " the Fourth Estate " — albeit one which was believed to be powerless in the theories of the others.

The Canadian Federal Government thought to further strengthen the Canadian print industry with a 1872 bill that would have introduced a projected licensing scheme that allowed for a reprinting of books under foreign copyright in exchange for a fixed royalty.

In July 1991, Sony, as part of larger agreement between the recording industry and consumer electronics makers, agreed to support legislation creating a royalty scheme for digital media.

" The court also declined to adjust the bond amount and called imposition of a compulsory royalty scheme an "' easy out ' for Napster " that would destroy the plaintiffs ' ability to control their intellectual property.

The interchange of shop licenses for a nominal royalty eliminated infringement suits among the members of the A.L.A.M. patent pool ( although it did not protect them against outside actions ) and kept open channels for the cross-fertilization of automotive technology.

He did not get back to a stable financial situation for several years, after he sold the royalty rights to many of his earlier works, including The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

After World War I the creation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, under Serbian royalty, did unite most Southern Slavic-speaking nations regardless of religion and cultural background.

By an ordinance of Louis Philippe I of France of 13 August 1830, it was decided that the king's children ( and his sister ) would continue to bear the arms of Orléans, that Louis-Philippe's eldest son, as Prince Royal, would bear the title of duc d ' Orléans, that the younger sons would continue to have their existing titles, and that the sister and daughters of the king would only be styled " princesses d ' Orléans ", which meant the Orléans royalty did not take the name " of France ".

He chose to reign under the name Edward VII, instead of Albert Edward — the name his mother had intended for him to use, declaring that he did not wish to " undervalue the name of Albert " and diminish the status of his father with whom among royalty the name Albert should stand alone.

Since the law did not distinguish, for marital purposes, between ruler and subjects, historically marriages between royalty and the noble heiresses to great fiefs became the norm, helping to aggrandize the House of Capet while gradually diminishing the number of large domains held in theoretical vassalage by nobles who were, in practice, virtually independent of the French crown.

Activision was founded by Atari programmers who left the company in because Atari did not allow credits to appear on the games and did not pay employees a royalty based on sales.

This royalty must be paid at the time of manufacturing, as opposed to royalty payments in almost all other industries, where royalties are paid upon actual sales of the product — and, importantly, are payable for games that did not sell to a consumer.

Whigs and Liberals believed the common people had a more positive effect on history than did royalty and that democratic government would bring about steady social progress.

The group did not receive any money for this effort and left with a contract that assured a small royalty for sales of their records and sheet music.

Finally, Kenneth Kitchen rejects the term co-regency to describe the relationship between Seti I and Ramesses II ; he describes the earliest phase of Ramesses II's career as a " prince regency " where the young Ramesses enjoyed all the trappings of royalty including the use of a royal titulary and harem but did not count his regnal years until after his father's death.

He proclaimed support for the French Revolution, a position which did not endear him to royalty.

When asked by his son Boromir how much time must pass before a Steward could become a King, if the King did not return, Denethor II replied: " Few years, maybe, in other places of less royalty ...

In the 15th century European royalty sometimes distributed uniform suits of clothes to courtiers, as the House of Fugger, the leading bankers, did to all employees.

The new king declared that he chose the name Edward alone as an honoured name borne by six of his predecessors, and that he did not wish to diminish the status of his father, with whom alone among royalty the name Albert should be associated.

Most of the states did not take part in the war as many parts of the region were ruled by the Nizams or the Mysore royalty and were thus not directly under British rule.

For years, Qing officials did not allow people to move to northeast China, as it always believed that should a Han majority government rise again in parts of China south of the Great Wall, the Manchu royalty could retreat to this area north of the Great Wall and retain a strong base to recover control in those parts of China.

Even though a few Iranians were arrested for this act, the Saudi officials were generally apathetic, as they did not view these political messages to be a threat to the Saudi royalty.

" Asked if there was an interview he wished he could do again, he said: " I did an interview with Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark and it was a crap interview because I am not very interested in royalty.

I say very rarely because the Kamba people did not speak much in terms of royalty ; they did not have a definite monarchical system.

The work consists of several books which are divided into articles and propositions which lay out the nature, characteristics, duties, and resources of royalty.

Once a work is accepted, commissioning editors negotiate the purchase of intellectual property rights and agree on royalty rates.

Wallinger's early work is noted for its social commentary, often focusing on class ( social ), royalty and nationalism.

Gallery Portraits were also used to glorify the artist as well as royalty or members of the higher classes, as may have been Velazquez's intention with this work.

The art historian Svetlana Alpers suggests that, by portraying the artist at work in the company of royalty and nobility, Velázquez was claiming high status for both the artist and his art, and in particular to propose that painting is a liberal rather than a mechanical art.

Consequently, Charles Dickens sometimes complained about cheap American knockoffs of his work for which he received no royalty.

Harry Mundy, who designed the twin-cam development of the engine for Lotus, was offered the choice of payment for his work of £ 1000 cash or a royalty of £ 1 per unit.

After Denslow quarreled with Baum over royalty shares from the 1902 stage adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, for which Baum wrote the script and Denslow designed the sets and costumes, Baum determined not to work with him again.

In 1978, having received a substantial royalty payment for his work with The Yardbirds, Russian music entrepreneur Giorgio Gomelsky relocated to New York in an attempt to open up the American market to the European progressive jazz-rock bands he was working with, such as Gong, Henry Cow and Magma.

It turns out that Marco and Giuseppe have in fact been doing all the work around the palace for the past three months-it is the privilege of royalty!

The royalty income enabled him to work as a freelance journalist while continuing to write fiction.

Her work is figurative painting with subject matter drawn from either her personal life of family, friends and school, or rock stars, royalty and celebrities.

Though the compulsory license allows one to make and distribute physical copies of a song for a set royalty, the owner of the copyright in the underlying musical composition can still control public performance of the work or transmission over the radio.

* " No Time " was actually composed by the four Monkees ( according to Peter, composition was done primarily by Micky and Mike ), but as a reward for his hard work, the band decided to credit the song to engineer Cicalo, guaranteeing him a large royalty check.

Important influences on the depiction of the Ripper include Marie Belloc Lowndes ' 1913 novel The Lodger, which has been adapted for the stage and film, and Stephen Knight's 1976 work Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution, which expanded on a conspiracy theory involving freemasons, royalty and the medical profession that features in many subsequent dramatisations.

His first work, under the pseudonym Merlino Coccajo, was the macaronic narrative poem Baldo ( 1517 ), which relates the adventures of a fictitious hero named Baldo (" Baldus "), a descendant of French royalty and something of a juvenile delinquent who encounters imprisonment ; battles with local authorities, pirates, shepherds, witches, and demons ; and a journey to the underworld.

In 1929, he wrote a work on traditional Beti society in which he tried to hide his unremarkable childhood by taking the title of " King " and claiming descent from a fictitious line of Ewondo royalty.