January 10, 2022
Global Music Rights LLC and Radio Music License Committee Inc. say they've settled the more than five-year-old rival antitrust suits over the music licensing fees that RMLC's 10,000 radio station members pay GMR songwriters.
May 22, 2020
Intellectual property proceedings impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic have been pressing along on different timelines throughout the country, with live oral arguments resumed for a case in Michigan, trials further delayed in California and witnesses allowed to stay home in New York. The Federal Circuit, taking the state-by-state unpredictability into account, has called off in-person arguments indefinitely.
February 05, 2020
A music rights group has rebuked a radio station buyer committee for continuing to pursue discovery of its sale information, saying the buyers' effort to obtain an advisory opinion from the federal judge overseeing the case is "premature."
January 23, 2020
Global Music Rights LLC has blasted a bid from a broadcasters' trade association to wade into its suit accusing a radio station organization of demanding anti-competitive licensing rates, saying the trade group is a friend of a party, not of the court.
January 17, 2020
A U.S. magistrate judge was wrong to dismiss discovery claims from a radio station buyers coalition that sought a performance rights group's sales information because she based her ruling on an improper definition of the market, the buyers group told a California federal judge.
January 15, 2020
The National Association of Broadcasters has called out the Justice Department for straying from its long-standing policies when it threw its weight behind a performance rights organization's claim that a coalition of buyers is breaking antitrust laws.
January 02, 2020
Global Music Rights LLC has urged a California federal court to heed a statement of interest filed by the Justice Department that blasted a radio station organization's bid to escape antitrust claims brought by GMR, arguing that the alleged conduct is clearly unlawful.
December 19, 2019
A radio music licensing organization that took heat from the U.S. Department of Justice for its efforts to exit a music rights group's antitrust case pushed back on the criticism Wednesday, insisting the government misread the organization's arguments.
December 06, 2019
A music rights organization got important backing from the U.S. Department of Justice in an antitrust spat against a radio station group, with the DOJ telling a California federal judge that the station group got price-fixing case law wrong on several fronts.
July 15, 2019
A music rights organization and a radio station group have filed battling briefs each asking a California federal judge to nix the other's claims in their consolidated antitrust dispute.