Legal Opinion
Associated Music Publishers, Inc. v. Debs Memorial Radio Fund, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 16, 1942PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, District Judge.
This is a motion by the plaintiff for summary judgment in its favor.
The suit is for infringement of a copyrighted musical composition entitled “Petite Suite Españole”, a symphonic work in four parts composed by E. F. Arbos, a Spanish conductor and composer.
On October 18, 1940, between 11 and 12 P. M., one of the four parts of the composition, known as “Noche de Arabia”, was broadcast over station WEVD, a broadcasting station in New York City owned and operated by the defendant Debs Memorial Fund, Inc. (hereafter referred to as “Debs”). The broadcast was made from a…
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- Jerome H. Remick & Co. v. General Electric Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1926
- Towle v. RossDistrict Court, D. Oregon · 1940
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