Radio Music License Committee, Inc v. Global Music Rights, LLC

  1. January 10, 2022

    Music Rights, Radio Station Groups Settle Licensing Fee Row

    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.

  2. February 14, 2020

    Music Rights Group Can't Drum Out Radio Reps' Cartel Suit

    A California federal judge has declined to toss radio stations' antitrust suit against a music rights organization, saying the allegations are supported by sufficient facts to move the case forward, but he struck down a push for monetary relief.

  3. January 17, 2020

    Radio Group Pushes Split Market View In Music Rights Row

    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.

  4. January 15, 2020

    Broadcasters Blast DOJ Stance In Music Rights Case

    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.

  5. January 02, 2020

    Music Rights Group Cheers DOJ Intervention In Antitrust Row

    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.

  6. December 19, 2019

    Radio Group Blasts DOJ Intervention In Antitrust Row

    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.

  7. December 06, 2019

    DOJ Calls Out Radio Music Licensing Org In Antitrust Row

    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.

  8. July 15, 2019

    Music Rights Co., Radio Group Call Each Other Off Key

    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.