Legal Opinion
United States v. American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 8, 1991No. Civ. 13-95 (WCC)PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
MICHAEL H. DOLINGER, United States Magistrate Judge:
This proceeding is an outgrowth of certain provisions of a Consent Decree (the “Decree”) originally entered into in 1941 by the United States Department of Justice and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (“ASCAP”). The Decree, as amended in 1950, regulates the manner in which ASCAP licenses for public performance the copyrighted music of its members.
The applicants in this proceeding all function as so-called cable program suppliers. In brief, they each assemble a package of programming, which they…
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