How A Louisiana Copyright Ruling Could Stir Up The Global Music Biz

www.forbes.com: A spicy copyright ruling from a federal court in Baton Rouge is causing indigestion among music publishers, record labels, and private equity investors, because it could upend contracts that musicians signed decades ago on a worldwide basis. While content creators or their heirs currently have a right under US law to recapture copyrights they bargained away much earlier in their careers, that right has only had effect within US borders. But Vetter v. Resnik would extend those rights worldwide.