1941 United States Supreme Court case
Watson v. Buck, 313 U.S. 387 (1941), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that the Copyright Act does not authorize copyright holders to violate valid antitrust laws.[1]
Description
In this case, the Supreme Court determined that the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, which formed to centralize and organize the licensing of music performance rights, was an illegal trust.[2]
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