Taylor Swift published this day on Instagram and X several photographs of his showing his albums. The text reads: “They belong to me”, in allusion to an announcement that caused a stir and emotion among his followers.
Swift communicated this Friday, May 30 that he recovered the rights of his musical catalog, as part of a growing movement between artists who claim the property of his works.
According to Forbes, The artist reported that she acquired the masters of her first six productionswhich puts an end to a dispute with its old record label.
According to the international press, the masters were sold in 2019. Therefore, the singer said she did not have the opportunity to buy them then, which is why she rewritten four of those albums, subtitling them as “Taylor’s version” (Taylor’s version).
Among them, international sources indicate that Reputation (Taylor’s version) He did not record himself. The interpreter explained that this album “could not be improved by remakeing it”, although she announced that she plans to release an unpublished song.
Public complaint of Taylor Swift
In 2019, Taylor Swift denounced that he was denied the possibility of acquiring the rights of his work. Therefore, he undertook the “Taylor’s version” re -region project, through which his music, videos and covers.
In April 2021, he released the new version of the album Fearless (Taylor’s version)the second of his career. Since then, his followers began to consciously reproduce these editions instead of the originals.
In social networks, fans promoted these versions with the message: “Support Taylor, not Scooter”
In addition, he revealed that he has finished working in a new edition of his debut album, Taylor Swift (2006), and added that, if his followers showed enthusiasm, the launch would be imminent.
“Finally I can say these words: all the music I have made … Now it belongs to me … to me,” he wrote in an emotional letter in which he also pointed out that musical videos, unpublished songs, art, photographs of his albums, “memories, magic and madness” are his.
A six -year fight
The news occurs almost six years after a constant battle to recover the rights of his music, after the acquisition in 2019 of the seal that possessed his masters by Scooter Braun, then manager of figures such as Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande.
A year later, Braun sold the masters for more than US $ 300 million to Shamrock Holdings. With this company, Swift reached an agreement, and stressed that its representatives managed each interaction “in a honest, fair and respectful way.”
