Legal Opinion
Latin American Music Co. v. American Society of Composers Authors & Publishers
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 29, 2010No. 08-1498PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Circuit Judge.
This dispute involves rights to a single song, “Caballo Viejo.”1 The appellants are the Latin American Music Company (“LAMCO”) and the Asociación de Compositores y Editores de Música Latino Americana (“ACEMLA”).2 The appellee is the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (“ASCAP”). After a trial, a jury found that the rights belonged to ASCAP. This determination turned on an implicit finding that ASCAP’s predecessor in interest West Side Music Publishing, Inc. (“West Side”), lawfully terminated a 1982 contract that had previously transferred West Side’s…
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