In re Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.

WOOLSEY, District Judge.

The petition to have the copyright of the songs therein enumerated reassigned to the petitioners, as the composers thereof, is granted.

' Reflection on the very interesting question involved in this case and a careful reading of the authorities cited by the counsel for the respective parties have only served to ripen into a settled conviction, the impression which I took away from the argument, that those who have transferred original compositions, whether of literary or musical nature, to a publisher on the agreement that they are to be entitled to royalties during the…