PANDORA MEDIA, INC. v. ASCAP

Nos. 14-1158-cv(L), 14-1161-cv(Con), 14-1246-cv(Con).

785 F.3d 73 (2015)

PANDORA MEDIA, INC., Petitioner-Appellee, v. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS, AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS, Respondent-Appellant, Universal Music Publishing, Inc., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, EMI Music Publishing, Intervenors-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: May 6, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey S. Bucholtz , King & Spalding LLP, Washington, DC ( Ethan P. Davis , King & Spalding LLP, Washington, DC; Kenneth L. Steinthal , Joseph R. Wetzel , King & Spalding LLP, San Francisco, CA, on the brief), for Petitioner-Appellee.

Jay Cohen , Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, N.Y. ( Eric A. Stone , Darren W. Johnson , Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, N.Y.; Richard H. Reimer , American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, New York, N.Y., on the brief), for Respondent-Appellant.

Daniel P. Collins ( Glenn D. Pomerantz , Melinda LeMoine , on the brief), Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Intervenor-Appellant Universal Music Publishing, Inc.

Donald S. Zakarin ( Frank Phillip Scibilia , Erich C. Carey , on the brief), Pryor Cashman LLP, New York, N.Y., for Intervenors-Appellants Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC and EMI Music Publishing.

Scott A. Edelman ( Linda Dakin-Grimm , Atara Miller , on the brief), Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, New York, N.Y., for Broadcast Music, Inc. as amicus curiae in support of Respondent-Appellant.

Renata B. Hesse , Acting Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Washington, DC, for the United States of America as amicus curiae.

Before: LEVAL, STRAUB, and DRONEY, Circuit Judges.


These appeals are taken from an opinion and order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Cote, J.), dated March 14, 2014, filed under seal and entered March 14, 2014, and filed publicly March 18, 2014 and entered March 19, 2014, along with all preliminary findings, rulings, and orders subsumed therein...

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