Broadcast Music v. Columbia Broadcasting System

Broadcast Music v. Columbia Broadcasting System, 441 U.S. 1 (1979), was an important antitrust case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. It held that blanket licenses issued by ASCAP and BMI did not necessarily constitute price fixing. The case was part of the court's retreat from applying rigid per se rules in antitrust to a more permissive rule of reason.