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| Buck v. Gallagher | |
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| Argued January 10, 1939 Decided April 17, 1939 | |
| Full case name | Buck v. Gallagher |
| Citations | 307 U.S. 95 ( more ) 59 S. Ct. 740; 83 L. Ed. 1128 |
| Holding | |
| 1) ASCAP members have a common and undivided interest in the right to license in association through the Society free of the state statute. 2) The lower court should have allowed ASCAP members the opportunity to price the cost of complying with the statute and the value of the copyrights affected by it. | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Reed |
| Dissent | Black |
Buck v. Gallagher, 307 U.S. 95 (1939), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court had two main holdings. First, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) members have a common and undivided interest in the right to license in association through the Society free of the state statute. Second, the lower court should have allowed ASCAP members the opportunity to price the cost of complying with the statute and the value of the copyrights affected by it. [1]
