Music Choice v. Copyright Royalty Board

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that the Board “did not err when [it] used the prevailing rate as the starting point of [its] analysis,” given “the lack of creditable benchmarks in the record” and the Board’s “reasoned explanation”
• “The Judges were under no obligation to salvage benchmarks they found to have fundamental problems.”
• “While the Judges might have made further adjustments to [a proponent’s] benchmarks to render them useful, the Judges were not required to do so.” (citation omitted)
• “[G]iven the lack of creditable benchmarks in the record, the Judges did not err when they used the prevailing rate as the starting point of their Section 801(b) analysis.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).