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GAI AUDIO OF N.Y., INC. v. C.B.S., INC.

No. 521, September Term, 1974.

27 Md. App. 172 (1975)

340 A.2d 736

GAI AUDIO OF NEW YORK, INC., ET AL. v. COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC., ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 26, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul S. Podolak and O. John Rogge, with whom were Robert B. Barnhouse, Barton Nachamie, A. Michael Fox and Arutt, Nachamie & Benjamin on the brief, for appellants.

M. King Hill and Michael A. Pretl, with whom were Smith, Somerville & Case on the brief, for appellees.

The cause was argued before ORTH, C.J., and POWERS and MOORE, JJ.

MOORE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal brings before us for the first time, and in the context of a civil action for compensatory and punitive damages, the nationwide phenomenon of "piracy" or "duplication" of musical recordings.1

Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., and Atlantic Recording Corporation, appellees, are the owners of exclusive contracts with popular recording artists and are the manufacturers and...

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