Legal Opinion
Broadcast Music, Inc. v. Moor-Law, Inc.
District Court, D. Delaware
Decided November 24, 1981No. Civ. A. 77-325PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
STAPLETON, District Judge:
Virtually all licensing of performing rights to musical compositions in the United States is conducted by two large organizations representing thousands of individual copyright owners, Broadcast Music, Inc. (“BMI”) and the American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers (“ASCAP”). In recently completed, multi-phased litigation, 1 the Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. (“CBS”) raised ultimately unsuccessful antitrust challenges to the practices of BMI and ASCAP in licensing performing rights to music used by television networks. This lawsuit involves…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1969
- American Tobacco Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Walker Process Equipment, Inc. v. Food MacHinery & Chemical Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Times-Picayune Publishing Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1948
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Atari Games Corp. And Tengen, Inc. v. Nintendo of America Inc. And Nintendo Co., Ltd.Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1992
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers v. Showtime/the Movie Channel, Inc., Applicant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1990
- Buffalo Broadcasting Company, Inc. v. American Society Of Composers, Authors And PublishersCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1984
- Blendingwell Music, Inc. v. Moor-Law, Inc.District Court, D. Delaware · 1985
- National Cable Television Ass'n v. Broadcast Music, Inc.District Court, District of Columbia · 1991
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