EU's second highest court has overturned a European Commission approval for a 2004 merger of Sony and Bertelsmann's music divisions named Sony BMG Music Entertainment – the world's second biggest music company.
The Luxembourg-based European Court of First Instance on Thursday (13 July) backed a challenge by a group of independent music companies saying that the commission's analysis of the merger was wrong.
The group argued Brussels had failed to prove that there was no danger th...
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