DOJ Rejects ASCAP and BMI's Proposed Changes to 1941 Antitrust ...
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Maintaining the Status Quo: DOJ Rejects ASCAP and BMI's Proposed Changes to 1941 Antitrust Consent Decrees. By Danielle Efros September 12, 2016. On August 4 ...
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The BMI court held that fractional licensing is permitted under the consent decree. Significantly, this means that BMI and ASCAP are now ...
U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Antitrust Consent ... (“BMI”), since 1941,. ASCAP has operated pursuant to a consent decree ...
Back in September, a judge ruled that fractional licensing is permitted under BMI's anti-trust consent decree. The Department of Justice, which has taken the ...
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After an unsuccessful initial petition in 1934, the Justice Department renewed its antitrust complaint in 1941, arguing that ASCAP's blanket ...
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But the Mississippi legislature, after rejecting anti-ASCAP legislation in. 1940, enacted in 1941 a statute authorizing and empowering the board of supervisors ...
The US music community is preparing for a long battle ahead following the decision by the Antitrust Division at the US Department of Justice ...
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The proposed changes to BMI's consent decree are important on a day ... affirmed the district court and rejected the DOJ's proposed.
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The Department of Justice's (DoJ) antitrust division on Thursday announced it wouldn't be modifying the 75-year-old consent decree program that governs the ...
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5 Antitrust Consent Decree Review—ASCAP and BMI 2019, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, ... Prior to EMI's withdrawal of its new media rights, ASCAP changed ...
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In 2014, ASCAP and BMI asked the DOJ for three changes to the con- sent ... In 2015, the DOJ floated a proposed change to the consent decrees that ...
Federal Judge Rejects DOJ's 100 Percent Licensing Rule for Music
US District Judge Louis L. Stanton ruled on September 16, 2016 that an antitrust decree that has regulated BMI and ASCAP since 1941 did not bar the use of ...
requests from ASCAP and BMI that the government support proposed modifications. According to the Justice Department, the most significant of the proposed ...
Justice Department Refuses To Modify PRO Consent Decrees ...
The U.S. Department of Justice dealt a major blow to music publishers after they declined to recommend changes to the consent decrees which ...
Potential Legal Issues in Terminating the ASCAP and BMI Decrees
U.S. Department of Justice,. Antitrust Division, Department of Justice's Initiative to Seek Termination of Legacy Antitrust. Judgments, 83 FED.
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noted that ASCAP and BMI were no strangers to antitrust litigation and summa- rized how they both came to be subject to consent decrees imposed by the ...