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MEREDITH CORP. v. SESAC LLC

No. 09 Civ. 9177(PAE).

1 F.Supp.3d 180 (2014)

MEREDITH CORPORATION, the E.W. Scripps Company, Scripps Media, Inc., Hoak Media, LLC, Hoak Media of Nebraska LLC, and Hoak Media of Dakota, LLC, Plaintiffs, v. SESAC LLC and John Does 1-50, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

Signed March 3, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce Alan Colbath, Robert Bruce Rich, Steven Alan Reiss, Benjamin Ely Marks, Eric Shaun Hochstadt, Jaime Singer Kaplan, Meaghan Parfitt Thomas-Kennedy, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY, Carrie M. Anderson, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

David Andrew Handzo, Susan Joan Kohlmann, Joshua Harris Rubin, Joshua M. Segal, Matthew S. McKenzie, Michael Brian Desanctis, Paul March Smith, Thomas A. Bousnakis, Zoila E. Hinson, Jenner & Block, LLP, Washington, DC, Andrew Michael Banks, Jenner & Block LLP, Carol A. Schrager, Carol A. Schrager, Esq., Henry R. Kaufman, Henry R. Kaufman, P.C., Michael W. Ross, Jenner & Block LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants.

OPINION & ORDER

PAUL A. ENGELMAYER, District Judge.

This lawsuit is the latest in a line dating to the 1940s that have challenged, under federal antitrust law, the practices of performing rights organizations ("PROs") that issue collective (or "blanket") licenses to the rights to perform the copyrighted music of their members or affiliates. In the United States, there are three such PROs. For more than 50 years, the licensing practices of the...

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