9th Circuit Reinstates Contract Breach Suit Against Paramount For Scoring Overseas

Mealey's (September 11, 2018, 2:04 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A trial court erred when it held that the portion of a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) requiring Paramount Pictures Corp. to score a film it was producing domestically did not apply where it was not directly employing the musicians, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Sept. 10 (American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada v. Paramount Pictures Corporation, No. 16-55996, 9th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 25570)....