COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS, AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS, et al., Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued November 20, 1979.
Decided April 3, 1980.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Alan J. Hruska, New York City (Roger H. Cummings, John N. Mayberry, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and John D. Appel, Deputy Gen. Counsel, CBS Inc., New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.
Jay H. Topkis, New York City (Bernard Korman, Herman Finkelstein, Allan Blumstein, Max Gitter, Richard Reimer, Fred Heather, Andrew Peck and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellee ASCAP.
Robert J. Sisk, New York City (George A. Davidson, Norman C. Kleinberg, Conley E. Brian, Jr., Michael E. Salzman, and Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellee BMI, Inc.
David R. Hyde, New York City (Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, New York City, on the brief), for NBC, Inc. as amicus curiae.
Ira M. Millstein, New York City (Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City, on the brief), for All Industry Television Station Music License Committee as amicus curiae.
Robert H. Bork, New Haven, Conn., for Aaron Copland, et al., as amici curiae.
Robert M. Lichtman, Washington, D.C. (Philip Elman, Jerry D. Anker, and Wald, Harkrader & Ross, Washington, D.C., Denis DeFreitas, Legal Advisor, The Performing Right Society, Ltd., London, England, and Jean-Loup Tournier, Directeur Gen., Societe des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique, Paris, France, on the brief), for The Performing Right Society, Ltd. and Societe des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique as amici curiae.
Barry Grossman, Washington, D.C. (John H. Shenefield, Asst. Atty. Gen., John J. Powers, III, Andrea Limmer, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for The United States as amicus curiae.
Hawkins, Delafield & Wood, New York City (Philip R. Forlenza and Rafael Pastor, New York City), submitted a brief for ABC, Inc., as amicus curiae.
Before LUMBARD, MOORE and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:
This is the fourth round of litigation in a lawsuit brought by Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. (CBS) against the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), and their members and affiliates. The lawsuit seeks injunctive relief to prevent ASCAP and BMI from using a blanket license to convey to television networks non-dramatic performing rights, that is, the right to "perform" copyrighted music...
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