Court Opinion

ID: 9464125
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:25:43.02691+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:38:28.278746
License: Public Domain

MOORE, Circuit Judge
(concurring):
I concur in the majority’s conclusion to remand for further proceedings so that such proof and argument as may be required, may be presented as will enable the court, and hopefully the parties as well, to evolve a practical method of adding to ASCAP’s repertory per use licensing. Since future proceedings will be directed to that issue, my points of disagreement will not even rise to the status of that legal vacuity known as “dicta”. However, I do not agree that “the ASCAP blanket license in its present form is price-fixing and with respect to the television networks cannot be saved by a ‘market necessity’ defense.”
Market necessity is recognized by the majority as “not without merit” and certainly K-91, Inc. v. Gershwin Publishing Corp., 372 F.2d 1 (9th Cir. 1967), cert. denied, 389 U.S. 1045, 88 S.Ct. 761, 19 L.Ed.2d 838 (1968), and the Solicitor General’s accompanying amicus brief would support this view.