Buck v. Gallagher

Buck v. Gallagher
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 10, 1939 Decided April 17, 1939
Full case name	Buck v. Gallagher
Citations	307 U.S. 95 (more) 59 S. Ct. 740; 83 L. Ed. 1128
Holding
1) ASCAP members have a common and undivided interest in the right to license in association through the Society free of the state statute. 2) The lower court should have allowed ASCAP members the opportunity to price the cost of complying with the statute and the value of the copyrights affected by it.
Court membership
Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes Associate Justices James C. McReynolds · Pierce Butler Harlan F. Stone · Owen Roberts Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas
Case opinions
Majority	Reed
Dissent	Black

Buck v. Gallagher, 307 U.S. 95 (1939), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court had two main holdings. First, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) members have a common and undivided interest in the right to license in association through the Society free of the state statute. Second, the lower court should have allowed ASCAP members the opportunity to price the cost of complying with the statute and the value of the copyrights affected by it.

External links

• Text of Buck v. Gallagher, 307 U.S. 95 (1939) is available from: Cornell CourtListener Findlaw Google Scholar Justia Library of Congress