Legal Opinion
Buffalo Broadcasting Co. v. American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 19, 1982No. 78 Civ. 5670PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GAGLIARDI, District Judge.
The public performance of virtually every musical composition copyrighted in the United States is licensed by either the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (“ASCAP”) or Broadcast Music, Inc. (“BMI”). Each organization, representing thousands of individual copyright holders and music publishing companies, operates primarily through a blanket license, which provides the licensee with immediate, indemnified access to any and all songs in the organization’s repertory in exchange for an annual fee ordinarily based upon a fixed percentage of the…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
- United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Broadcast Music, Inc. v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1979
- United States v. Trenton Potteries Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1927
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3Cited by11 opinions
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- Buffalo Broadcasting Company, Inc. v. American Society Of Composers, Authors And PublishersCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1984
- Deltak, Inc. v. Advanced Systems, Inc.District Court, N.D. Illinois · 1983
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