The four winners could receive as much as $4,000 in residual payments during the campaign.
Last week, however, the producers dropped their demand that the directors give up residual payments on video-cassette sales.
This established the precedent for residual payments from recorded performances.
In 1952, residual payments were extended to these television reruns.
As a result, the residual payments were generally limited to about six broadcasts.
This was changed in the mid-1970s, when contracts for new television shows extended residual payments without limit on the number of repeats.
Anything, including residual payments, that drove the price of pay-per-view higher would be to the networks' benefit.
The disagreement was over residual payment for TV commercials used on cable.
Much of their income comes from residual payments they get over the years just licensing their patents to other companies.
The old contract had a fixed schedule of residual payments.