After two years, Bush joined with a neighbor to create a firm that would purchase royalty rights from small landowners if a driller found oil on the land.

The court also let stand a ruling giving royalty rights to the Kingsmen for their 1963 hit recording of "Louie, Louie."

And the provisions have been expanded to include not only property like paintings, but so-called intangibles, such as stocks or even royalty rights.

Components of the multi-million-dollar Welk conglomerate include a large music library and ownership of the lucrative royalty rights to 20,000 songs.

Meanwhile Barnard, who lost his royalty rights to this particular version of the program, wasted no time in setting up Ace Microsystems.

The company also owns 80 percent of the royalty rights to "The Sound of Music."

Assisting and advising members in all areas regarding protection of their royalty rights.

When the production was ready for recording, it fell naturally to Comer to take over production rights, with the authors reserving, of course, their royalty rights.

Full royalty rights were returned to Brooker.

Dubois inherited some of the royalty rights to his father's books, and made fairly profitable investments with the capital.