You Belong With Me.💚💛💜❤️🩵🖤letter on My Site :) Pic.twitter.com/pdb6kgdcvo— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) May 30, 2025

At the beginning of 2019, singer Taylor Swift was involved in a legal dispute upon learning that her former label, Big Machine Records, had sold for approximately 300 million dollars the rights of his first six albums to the musical representative Scooter Braun and his record signature, Ithaca Holdings.

The acquired discography included the first six works of the singer from West Reading, Pennsylvania: Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Grid, 1989 and Reputation.

This operation generated a intense conflict that lasted for almost six yearsperiod in which the singer had no other option than Reword your albums to recover control of your work.

The Composition rights They belong to who creates the melody and lyrics of a song – in this case, Taylor Swift – while the Master rights They correspond to the label, since it is the one who finances the professional recording and provides resources such as the study, musicians and technical staff.

Depending on the contract signed between artist and label, the company may have total freedom to market music, which includes authorizing its use in films, series or commercials without requiring the approval of the artist.

However, the real conflict was not only the sale of the rights to Braun, but its history. Scooter Braun, known for representing figures like Kanye West and Ariana Grande, I had several times to sign with Taylor Swift, without success.

Before his refusal, Braun chose to buy rights as a possible strategy to attract her to her companywhich did not work. Even so, when he owned the masters, he received income from reproductions, while Swift continued to receive a small percentage, as stipulated by his original contract.

What Braun did not foresee was that Taylor still retained control over the distribution of his songsthat is, the ability to decide on what productions could be used. This detail prevented Braun from fully monetizing the catalog, because he could not license for commercials, films or series without the singer’s approval.

In 2020, Braun was forced to Relise the rights of masters to the investment firm Shamrock Holdingslinked to Disney, also for an estimated sum of 300 million dollars.

Finally, on May 30, Taylor Swift announced through his social networks that there were Repurchase your catalog, ensuring 100 % of the rights of your intellectual property.

Thanks to his new contract with Universal Music Group, he also became the owner of the masters of his future music, thus marking a milestone in the music industry and closing one of the most controversial chapters of his career.