Canopy Music Inc. v. Harbor Cities Broadcasting, Inc.

DECISION AND ORDER

MYRON L. GORDON, District Judge.

The plaintiffs filed this copyright infringement suit against the defendant, Harbor Cities Broadcasting, Inc. [“Harbor Cities”], on February 21, 1996. They allege that on March 6, 1993, Harbor-Cities, which operates radio station WAUN-FM in Kewaunee, Wisconsin, knowingly and willfully infringed ten times upon copyrights owned by the plaintiffs. All of the plaintiffs are members of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers [“ASCAP”], an unincorporated organization to which the plaintiffs have granted a nonexclusive right to…