United States Second Circuit

A blanket license for music performance with a fee structure that includes reductions (or "carve-outs") to reflect any per piece or direct licenses held by license applicants is nothing more than a traditional blanket license with a particular fee structure.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/20/2000
• Decided 12/13/2001
• Published 12/13/2001

Judges

• F.I. PARKER, Circuit Judge., Before: OAKES, JACOBS and F.I. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bruce G. Joseph, Thomas W. Kirby, Wiley, Rein & Fielding, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae Television Music License Committee, Radio Music License Committee, ABC, Inc., CBS Broadcasting Inc., National Broadcasting Company Inc., John H. Shenefield, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Washington, DC (Jonathan M. Rich, Philip C. Zane, Of Counsel), I. Fred Koenigsberg, White & Case LLP, Richard H. Reimer, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert J. Wiggers,United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC (Joel I. Klein, Assistant Attorney General, A. Douglas Melamed, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Robert B. Nicholson, Robert P. Faulkner Of Counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee., R. Bruce Rich, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (John W. Carroll, Wolfson & Carroll, New York, NY, Of Counsel), for Applicants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees., Norman C. Kleinberg, Michael E. Salzman, David L. Sorgen, Beatrice A. Hamza, Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, New York, NY (Marvin L. Berenson, Joseph J. DiMona, Kerri Howland-Kruse, Broadcast Music, Inc., Of Counsel), for Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.