Legal Opinion
Watson v. Buck
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 26, 1941No. Nos. 610, 611PublishedCited by 455 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
delivered the. opinion.' of the Court.
In broad outline, these cases involve the constitutionality of Florida statutes regulating the business of persons holding music copyrights and declaring price-fixing combinations of “authors, composers, publishers, [and] owners” of such copyrights to be illegal and in restraint of trade.
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), one of the appellants in No. 611 and one of the appellees in No. 610, is a combination which controls the performance rights of a major part of the available supply, of. copyrighted popular music. The…
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