The Justice Department is weighing in on another entertainment industry battle that touches on antitrust concerns.
The DOJ filed a brief on Thursday in ongoing litigation between Irving Azoff’s Global Music Rights, a performing rights organization to represent artists and songwriters, and the Radio Music License Committee, which represents most of the country’s radio stations, over claims of price fixing.
Global Music Rights and the Radio Music Licensing Committee have each sued each other by claiming their negotiating adversaries are operating illegal cartels.
In their brief, the Justice Department urges the judge in the case to reject some of Radio Music Licensing’s arguments.
“When competitors agree to a restraint that is per se illegal, it does not matter whether they are buyers or sellers of good and services,” the DOJ stated in its filing. “Per se rules apply to agreements among competing buyers in the same way...
The DOJ filed a brief on Thursday in ongoing litigation between Irving Azoff’s Global Music Rights, a performing rights organization to represent artists and songwriters, and the Radio Music License Committee, which represents most of the country’s radio stations, over claims of price fixing.
Global Music Rights and the Radio Music Licensing Committee have each sued each other by claiming their negotiating adversaries are operating illegal cartels.
In their brief, the Justice Department urges the judge in the case to reject some of Radio Music Licensing’s arguments.
“When competitors agree to a restraint that is per se illegal, it does not matter whether they are buyers or sellers of good and services,” the DOJ stated in its filing. “Per se rules apply to agreements among competing buyers in the same way...
- 12/6/2019
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
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