The company has already been ordered to pay $58 million in damages and royalties of 5.5 percent.
To hear the record companies tell it, they fear not just the loss of millions in royalties.
To date, it has paid more than $250,000 in royalties to writers.
Last year, companies paid nearly $10 billion in royalties on oil and gas alone.
I wouldn't live long enough to see much more in royalties than they already gave me.
Energy companies pay about $350 million in federal royalties on gas they produce.
The song has earned more than $1 million in royalties.
He said the association received $2.2 million in royalties last year from its licensing business.
By the time the professor wrote the letter, the Senator was reported to have earned $50,000 in royalties.
He would not say how much in royalties the company had sought.