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.
February 14, 2020
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.
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.