( 1 ) THE proprietor of the Modern Publishers at Tenali who have now changed their business name to be "pillalamarri Publishers" (the Publishers) complain in the suit of infringement of copyright in a book "tara-sasankam" printed by them in 1945. The author of the book, Kopparapu Subba-rao, they aver, had assigned copyrights to the publishers on 17/01/1945, under Ex. A-1 deed. The book appears to have been written at the suggestion of late Suri Babu, a well known stage and cine actor. Having written, the author assigned the stage rights to Suri Babu and imposed a condition that he (the actor) and another actress Ch. Rajeswari to perform "in combination" the play -- the theme in the book. Suri Babu died in 1966, and on his death, under the terms of Ex. A1 deed the publishers aver that absolute copyrights vested in them. The author died on May, 7, 1957, after the book was printed in three editions by the publishers. The spouse of the author, notwithstanding the transfer in Ex. A1, caused citation once on 28/12/1962, in Andhra Prabha and for the second time on 1/01/1970, in Andhra Jyothi that copyrights in the book vest in her person and that any conversion of the play or