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MCA Wins Judgment: The Music Entertainment division won a $7-million judgment against Swiss-based Charley Records for unauthorized use of MCA’s Chess Records catalogue, which includes recordings by such seminal American artists as Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. The U.S. District Court ruling supersedes a 1994 jury verdict of $4 million, which Charley elected to contest in a new trial. In December, a federal judge ruled that MCA owned the exclusive rights to the Chess catalogue and a jury unanimously agreed that Charley had infringed on those rights. On Tuesday, MCA was awarded $5 million in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages.