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BROADCAST MUSIC, INC. v. MOOR-LAW, INC.

Civ. A. No. 77-325.

527 F.Supp. 758 (1981)

BROADCAST MUSIC, INC., Boudleaux Bryant and Felice Bryant, a partnership d/b/a House of Bryant Publications, Ahab Music Company, Inc., Arc Music Corp., A. E. Owens, an individual d/b/a Blue Book Music, Waylon Jennings and Thomas P. Glaser, a partnership, d/b/a Baron Music Publishing Company, Willie Nelson Music Inc., d/b/a Willie Nelson Music Publishing, and Shelby Singleton Music, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. MOOR-LAW, INC., a Delaware Corporation, and/or Robert C. Moor, Jr., an individual, d/b/a Triple Nickel Saloon, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

November 24, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Drexler, William H. Sudell, Jr., and John F. Johnston, of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, Del., for plaintiffs.

William J. Wier, Jr., Robert Jacobs, and Terry C. Seningen of Bader, Dorsey & Kreshtool, Wilmington, Del., for defendants.

OPINION

STAPLETON, District Judge:

Virtually all licensing of performing rights to musical compositions in the United States is conducted by two large organizations representing thousands of individual copyright owners, Broadcast Music, Inc. ("BMI") and the American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers ("ASCAP"). In recently completed, multi-phased litigation,1 the Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. ("CBS") raised...

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