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Entertainment & Sports

Dec. 10, 2014

Judge recommends appellate review in Sirius copyright case

A Superior Court Judge denied the satellite broadcaster's motion to reconsider jury instructions, but agreed that the issue of who can play copyrighted sound recordings is a big one, deserving further examination.


By Matthew Blake


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - Sirius XM Radio Inc. has lost again in court - but the broadcaster that's fighting multiple copyright infringement suits over not paying oldies recording artists may also be seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.


At Los Angeles County Superior Court Friday, new Sirius counsel Daniel M. Petrocelli, a partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, time and again said Sirius should not f...

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