The following snippet,

"Now fortunately someone told us to do that, and did the same thing, and that's ultimately how we got the company back," he explained. "Because when we were able to prove that things were not what they should be then it was ‘pay us or give us the company back', very simple. And so that's how we got the company back, 100 per cent."

makes it sound like this was not the case and that they were, in fact, cheated out of royalties. The article is not completely clear, though, and awkwardly-worded at some points.