U.S. company sues American Hockey League for over $15 million.

The American Hockey League has been slapped with a major lawsuit, one that is seeking a significant amount of compensation from the AHL.

According to a report from TSN business insider Rick Westhead, a U.S. based production company that goes by the name of Associated Production Music (APM) has filled a lawsuit seeking damages that could exceed $15 million in U.S. District court. More specifically, APM believes it is entitled to recover up to $150,000 for each of their works that was used without authorization by the AHL, with the company citing several hundred instances in which their works were used in promotional videos without their permission.

Additionally APM claims that it has repeatedly contacted the American Hockey League about the unlicensed use of their products but that, despite this, the league has refused to obtain proper licenses for using those products.

In the documents obtained by Westhead, we can also see that several of the league's partner teams have been named in the legal filing, including the Utica Comets, the Belleville Senators, the Ontario Reign, and more.

Those documents also show some of the instances APM feels their products were used inappropriately without a license as well as the specific title of the products in question.

The American Hockey League is of course the primary developmental league for the National Hockey League and as a result the AHL and it's partner teams have strong ties to teams in the NHL. Both Chicago Blackhawks Hockey Inc. and Capital Sports & Entertainment Inc, are named as defendants in the lawsuit with the two companies representing the Chicago Blackhawks and Ottawa Senators respectively.

The filing contains over 20 pages of examples of work that APM believes was infringed upon, and it will be very interesting to see how the AHL and its teams respond to these allegations.

APM has requested a jury trial in their filing.