MUSIC INDUSTRY : SONY-BMG: ADVOCATE-GENERAL ADVISES COURT TO UPHOLD ANNULMENT.

Tech Europe,  January, 2008  

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A new episode opened in the lengthy Sony-BMG saga on 13 December. Advocate-General Juliane Kokott of the EU Court of Justice advised the Court to reject the appeal lodged by the two big record companies, Japan's Sony Music and Germany's Bertelsmann, against the Court of First Instance (CFI) decision to annul the merger authorisation (Case C-413/06). The European Commission originally cleared the deal in July 2004. After having re-examined the case, it cleared the merger a second time on 3 October, once again without setting any conditions or obligations.

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