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OPINION & DECLARATORY JUDGMENT LOUIS L. STANTON, United States District Judge. This application for a construction of the Final Judgment (“Consent Decree”)1 in this case is stimulated by the August 4, 2016 publication of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice’s “Statement of the Department of Justice on the Closing of the Antitrust Division’s Review of the A

PARKER, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee United States of America and Applicants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees Muzak LLC and AEI Music Network, Inc. (“Applicants”) appeal, and Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant Broadcast Music, Inc. (“BMI”) cross-appeals, from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Louis L. Stanton, Judge) dated March 9, 2000, granting in part

275 F.3d 168 (2nd Cir. 2001) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT-CROSS-APPELLEE,MUZAK LLC; AEI MUSIC NETWORK, INC., APPLICANTS-APPELLANTS-CROSS-APPELLEESv.BROADCAST MUSIC, INC. DEFENDANT-APPELLEE-CROSS-APPELLANT Docket Nos. 00-6123(LEAD), 00-6125(XAP), 00-6157(CON)August Term, 2000 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT Argued: Novemb

CHIN, Circuit Judge: In 1941, the United States brought an antitrust action against the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (“ASCAP”). The suit resulted in a consent decree that provided certain protections for prospective music licensees. Where, for example, ASCAP and a prospective licensee have reached an impasse over fees, under the consent decree, either may

726 F.Supp.2d 355 (2010) BROADCAST MUSIC, INC., Petitioner, v. DMX, INC., Respondent. No. 08 Civ. 216 (LLS). United States District Court, S.D. New York. July 26, 2010. Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York, NY, Of Counsel: Michael E. Salzman, James C. Fitzpatrick, Jason C. Benton, Margaret J. Hoag and Marvin L. Bernson, Joseph J. DiMona, Stuart Rosen, New York, N

LEVAL, Circuit Judge. Under a consent decree established in United States v. Broadcast Music, Inc., 1966 Trade Cas. (CCH) ¶ 71,941 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 29, 1966), amended, United States v. Broadcast Music, Inc., 1996-1 Trade Cas. ¶ 71, 378 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 18, 1994) (“BMI Consent Decree”), the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Stanton, /.), functioned as a rate-setting court

B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge. introduction This appeal arises from a decision of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Stanton, /.), acting under the Broadcast Music, Inc. (“BMI”) Consent Decree, 1 to set a rate for Music Choice’s licensing of BMI’s music. The lic

C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied.

C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied.

SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge. The question we decide in this case is whether a federal tax lien takes priority over prior unrecorded assignments of the taxpayer’s rights to receive royalty income from the performance of a copyrighted work. Broadcast Music, Inc. (“BMI”) licenses the public performance rights in copyrighted musical compositions. It co

C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied.

C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied.

C. A. 8th Cir. Certiorari denied. Justice White would grant certiorari.

C. A. 8th Cir. Certiorari denied. Justice White would grant certiorari.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER Noelle C. Collins, ÚNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE This matter is before the court pursuant to Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment. (Doc. 45). Defendants have filed a Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment. (Doc. 52). Plaintiffs have filed a Reply. (Doc. 53). Also before the court is Plaintiffs’ Motion to Strike and Exclude, in part, the Affidavi

OPINION & ORDER LOUIS L. STANTON, District Judge. TABLE OF CONTENTS BACKGROUND. 270 A. BMIConsent Decree . 271 B. The Online Music Industry....272 C. Pandora.,.273 1. The Music Genome Project..'.273 2. Pandora’s Business and Revenue.273 D. BMI’s Licensing History of

112 B.R. 148 (1990) In the Matter of John J. ELMS, Jr. and Gretchen Kuntz Elms, Debtors. BROADCAST MUSIC, INC., Plaintiff, v. John J. ELMS, Jr., Defendant. Adv. No. 89-0161-K, Bankruptcy No. 87-03936. United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Louisiana. January 19, 1990. *149 Bruce J. Ruzinsky, Dotson & Scofield, Houston, Tex.

SOLOMON, District Judge: This is an appeal from a grant of summary judgment against appellants (Casual Corner) for infringement of public performance rights belonging to Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI). Appellants operate a chain of more than 600 women’s retail apparel stores under the name Casual Corner. In many of their stores, regular radio broadcasts were played to the public through the use of a single radi

ORDER Timothy C. Batten, Sr., United States District Judge This copyright-infringement case comes before the Court on Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment [23]. I. Background Plaintiff Broadcast Music, Inc. is a performing rights society that sells licenses to publicly play musical compositions on behalf of the copyright owners, including Plaintiffs Stone Di