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ASOCIACION de COMPOSITORES v. COPYRIGHT ROY. TRIB.

No. 1222, Docket 88-4035.

854 F.2d 10 (1988)

ASOCIACION de COMPOSITORES Y EDITORES de MUSICA LATINOAMERICANA, Petitioners, v. COPYRIGHT ROYALTY TRIBUNAL, Respondent. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Broadcast Music, Inc., and SESAC, Inc., Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 8, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence J. Bernard, Jr. (Ward & Mendelsohn, P.C., Washington, D.C., of counsel), for petitioners.

Dwight G. Rabuse, Appellate Staff Atty. (John R. Bolton, Asst. U.S. Atty. Gen., John F. Cordes, Appellate Staff Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Div., Washington, D.C., of counsel), for respondent.

I. Fred Koenigsberg (Bernard Korman, Bennett M. Lincoff, ASCAP, New York City, Robert Cassler, Washington, D.C., Edward W. Chapin, Nicholas Arcomano, Broadcast Music, Inc., New York City, Charles T. Duncan, Michael W. Faber, Joseph J. DiMona, Reid & Priest, Washington, D.C., John Koshel, Laurie Hughes, Steven Gordon, SESAC, Inc., New York City, of counsel), filed a joint brief on behalf of intervenors ASCAP, BMI and SESAC, Inc.

Before FEINBERG, LUMBARD and MINER, Circuit Judges.

MINER, Circuit Judge:

Asociacion de Compositores y Editores de Musica LatinoAmericana ("ACEMLA") petitions this Court for review of a final decision of the United States Copyright Royalty Tribunal (the "CRT" or "Tribunal") awarding ACEMLA one dollar in cable television copyright royalties for the year 1985, see 1985 Cable Royalty Distribution, 53 Fed.Reg. 7133 (1988). ACEMLA argues that the CRT acted arbitrarily in evaluating the evidence presented, that the...

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