Department of Justice Files Appeal Against BMI Consent Decree ...

Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the ...

On August 30, 2024, the Department of Justice lodged a proposed consent decree with the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

2-4-16 BMI ASCAP Joint Petition to Participate

... Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, In the Matter of Review of ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees at 29, available at http://www.justice.gov/sites/default ...

DOJ takes fight with BMI to appeals court - The Tennessean

DOJ takes fight with BMI to appeals court ... file an appeal," BMI President and CEO Michael O'Neill said. ... “The consent decree neither bars fractional ...

BMI Rate Court Rejects DOJ Consent Decree Interpretation

BMI strategy begins to pay dividends. You may recall our report last August that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) had closed a two-year ...

Are the ASCAP and BMI Political Campaign Licenses Violating Their ...

Whether artists can opt out of this political license is questionable because ASCAP and BMI are subject to Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust consent decrees ...

Department Of Justice Appeals BMI Fractional-Licensing Ruling

BMI immediately sought a judgment to overturn, and got it in September, with Judge Louis Stanton writing, “Nothing in the consent decree gives ...

Consent Decrees for Songwriters - Music Tech Solutions

NACPA rate court case under the BMI antitrust consent decree gives us some insight. ... An appeal of the BMI case would allow the DOJ to drag out the ...

United States Court of Appeals - David Balto

Department of Justice (“DOJ”) to prevent BMI from abusing its market power. ... finding that the consent decree requires BMI to license full works. Date ...

ASCAP, BMI Comment Regarding DOJ Review of Consent Decrees

... in how music is delivered to and experienced by listeners." On August 6, ASCAP and BMI filed public comments regarding the consent decree review ...

U.S. Justice Department loses music licensing appeal | Reuters

In its ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld a New York district court decision that found the consent decree with BMI did not require ...

(b) The Department of Justice filed a proposed consent decree with ...

order, and require that the case be assigned to a different trial judge on ... ''' BMI (quoting Topco). While every ''business relationship'' will in some ...

The Music Industry: Drowning in the Stream

5 Antitrust Consent Decree Review—ASCAP and BMI 2019, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, https://www.justice.gov/atr/antitrust-consent-decree-review ...

Music Performing Rights Organizations and the “Full-Work” vs ...

BMI and ASCAP are the two largest PROs in the United States, and each are governed by DOJ consent decrees, which were first entered into in 1941 ...

Department of Justice - RAIN News

Justice Department files for full-works licensing in BMI consent decree ... Dept of Justice appeals fractional licensing in BMI consent decree. Posted on ...

Public Knowledge Calls for Appeal of Misguided Consent Decree ...

Last Friday, the federal district court overseeing the BMI consent decree rejected the Department of Justice's interpretation, holding that it did not ...

DOJ leaves decades-old music industry decrees unchanged

The consent decrees signed that year require ASCAP and BMI to offer licenses to their entire catalog to anyone who wants one, at a fee that's ...

Second Circuit's BMI Decision Commendably Overturns the Justice ...

... the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) August 2016 reinterpretation of its longstanding antitrust consent decree with BMI. Because the DOJ ...

BMI Battles Department of Justice Over Song Licensing - Variety

In a brief filed in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in ... There is a reason the Copyright Office and federal judge overseeing the BMI consent ...

SONA and Songwriters Fight DOJ's Misguided 100% Licensing Rule

... file its opening brief in its appeal of Judge Stanton's ruling that the BMI consent decree does not require 100% licensing. According to the DOJ ...

Streaming Companies Appeal CRB Rate Increase / ASCAP, BMI ...

... BMI Comment on DOJ Consent Decree / Spotify's Podcast Analytics Out of Beta. “Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and ...