DC Circuit Finds for CRB in MVPD Royalties Distribution
The Copyright Royalty Board correctly denied Independent Producers Group challenges to distributions of MVPD royalty fees and in revoking the presumption of validity for and the imposition of discovery sanctions on IPG. That's according to U.S. Court of Appeals for…
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the D.C. Circuit order Tuesday (docket 18-1337) by Judges Thomas Griffith, Laurence Silberman and Cornelia Pillard, written by Pillard. IPG outside counsel didn't comment. The judges expressed skepticism in April oral argument of math IPG used to assert CRB was arbitrary and capricious (see 2004220015).