Legal Opinion
Meredith Corp. v. Sesac LLC
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 3, 2014No. 09 Civ. 9177(PAE)PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION & ORDER
PAUL A. ENGELMAYER, District Judge.
This lawsuit is the latest in a line dating to the 1940s that have challenged, under federal antitrust law, the practices of performing rights organizations (“PROs”) that issue collective (or “blanket”) licenses to the rights to perform the copyrighted music of their members or affiliates. In the United States, there are three such PROs. For more than 50 years, the licensing practices of the two largest — the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (“ASCAP”), and Broadcast Music, Inc. (“BMI”) — have been subject to consent…
2Cases cited55 opinions
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3Cited by26 opinions
- De Curtis v. Ferrandina (In re Ferrandina)United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. New York · 2015
- Ace Arts, LLC v. Sony/ATV Music Publishing, LLCDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 2014
- Meredith Corp. v. SESAC, LLCDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 2015
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