The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS, Canadian Claimants, Program Suppliers, Petitioners,
v.
COPYRIGHT ROYALTY TRIBUNAL, Respondent,
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers; Broadcast Music, Inc.; SESAC, Inc.; Program Suppliers; Multimedia Entertainment, Inc.; Canadian Claimants; Old-Time Gospel Hour; PTL Television Network; Public Broadcasting Service; Joint Sports Claimants; Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.; the Christian Broadcasting Network, Inc.; the National Association of Broadcasters, Intervenors.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued July 16, 1986.
Decided December 22, 1986.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
John I. Stewart, Jr., Washington, D.C. (Victor E. Ferrall, Jr., David H. Solomon, Crowell & Moring, Henry L. Baumann, Julian L. Shepard, Nat. Ass'n of Broadcasters, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for petitioner/intervenor Nat. Ass'n of Broadcasters.
W. Thad Adams, III, Charlotte, North Carolina (John H. Midlen, Jr., Washington, D.C., of counsel), for petitioners/intervenors Old-Time Gospel Hour and PTL Television Network.
Douglas G. Thompson, Jr., Washington, D.C. (L. Kendall Satterfield, Finkelstein, Thompson, Levenson & Lewis, Washington, D.C., Erica Redler, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., of counsel), for petitioners/intervenors Canadian Claimants.
Irene M. Solet, Civil Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Richard K. Willard, Asst. Atty. Gen., John F. Cordes, Civil Div., Dept. of Justice, Robert Cassler, Copyright Royalty Tribunal, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for respondent Copyright Royalty Tribunal.
Gene A. Bechtel, Washington, D.C., (Bechtel & Cole, Washington, D.C., Jacqueline Weiss, Deputy Gen. Counsel, Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, Va., of counsel), for intervenor Public Broadcasting Service.
Arnold P. Lutzker, Washington, D.C. (James M. McElfish, Jr., Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for intervenor Multimedia Entertainment, Inc.
Dennis Lane, Washington, D.C. (Arthur Scheiner, Leslie A. Swackhamer, Rebecca L. Dorch, Wilner & Scheiner, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for petitioner/intervenor Motion Picture Ass'n of America, Inc., et al. (Program Suppliers).
Bernard Korman, I. Fred Konigsberg, Edward W. Chapin, Nicholas Arcomano, New York, N.Y., Charles T. Duncan, Reid & Priest, Washington, D.C., Michael W. Faber, Lisa Holland Powell, of counsel, for intervenors American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Broadcast Music, Inc. and SESAC, Inc.
David H. Lloyd, Robert Alan Garrett, Terri A. Southwick, Arnold & Porter, Philip R. Hochberg, Baraff, Koerner, Olender & Hochberg; Robert W. Coll, McKenna, Wilkinson & Kittner; Ritchie T. Thomas, Judith Jurin Semo, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, Washington, D.C., Edwin M. Durso, Office of the Com'r of Baseball, New York, N.Y., of counsel, for intervenors Joint Sports Claimants.
Nathan Lewin, Jamie S. Gorelick, Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, Lois J. Schiffer, Carol R. Whitehorn, Nat. Public Radio, Washington, D.C., of counsel, for intervenor Nat. Public Radio.
Before WINTER and MAHONEY, Circuit Judges, and CABRANES, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
WINTER, Circuit Judge:
These consolidated petitions involve various challenges to the 1983 distribution of cable television royalty fees by the Copyright Royalty Tribunal ("CRT" or "Tribunal"), an agency established pursuant to Sections 801-810 of the 1976 Copyrights Act ("Act" or "1976 Act"), 17 U.S.C. §§ 801-810 (1982). After four of the five previous annual distributions, dissatisfied cable royalty claimants appealed the Tribunal's determinations to the...
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