[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 187 (Tuesday, September 26, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 57828]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-24604]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


United States v. American Society of Composers, Authors and 
Publishers

    Notice is hereby given that on September 5, 2000 a proposed Second 
Amended Final Judgment, Stipulation and Memorandum in Support were 
filed with the United States District Court for the Southern District 
of New York in United States of America v. American Society of 
Composers, Authors and Publishers, Civil Action No. 13-95. On February 
26, 1941, the United States filed a Compliant alleging that the 
collective licensing activities of ASCAP violated Section 1 of of the 
Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. 1. The original Final Judgment, filed the same 
time as the Complaint, required ASCAP to grant licenses for performing 
rights on request and to provide per program licenses. The judgment was 
substantially amended March 14, 1950 (the Amended Final Judgment or 
AFJ) and again January 7, 1960 with entry of the ``1960 Order.'' Also 
on March 14, 1950, a separate decree was entered in United States of 
America v. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Civil 
Action 42-245 (the ``Foreign Decree''). That decree, as amended in 
1997, prohibits ASCAP from entering into exclusive agreements with 
foreign performing rights organizations. The proposed Second Amended 
Final Judgment would update licensing requirements and the provisions 
addressing relationships between ASCAP and its members, and incorporate 
provisions of the Foreign Decree. Upon entry of the Second Amended 
Final Judgment, the 1960 Order, the Amended Final Judgment and 
Memorandum in Support are available for inspection at the Department of 
Justice in Washington, DC in Room 215, 325 Seventh Street, NW. and at 
the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the 
Southern District of New York, New York. Copies of any of these 
materials may be obtained upon request and payment of a copying fee.
    Public comment is invited within 60 days of this notice. Such 
comments, and responses thereto, will be published in the Federal 
Register and filed with the Court. Comments should be directed to James 
Wade, Chief, Civil Task Force, Antitrust Division, Department of 
Justive, Washington, DC 20530, (202) 616-5935.

Mary Jean Moltenbrey,
Director, Civil Non-Merger Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-24604 Filed 9-25-00; 8:45 am]
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