A Whole New World (of Copyright): Implications of Vetter and Beyond

Last week, units of Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and BMG took the highly unusual step of purchasing a copyright for the express purpose of filing a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari. The copyright in question is the musical composition “Double Shot (Of My Baby’s Love)”, the subject of the Fifth Circuit’s shocking opinion in Vetter v.