▲ The singer in a letter published on her website thanks her followers to support during her battle to recover the rights of her first 6 albums. In the image, Swift on its 2024 tour.AFP Photo
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La Jornada newspaper
Saturday, May 31, 2025, p. 7
New York. The singer and songwriter Taylor Swift announced yesterday that she bought the rights of her first six albums, ending a battle for the property of her work.
All the music I have made … now … it belongs to me
Said the artist in a handwritten letter published on her website, in which she thanks her followers for the support during her battle for six years to recover the rights of her first studio albums after the record company in which she recorded them was sold.
In the summer of 2019, the star began a public fight with the magnate of the music industry Scooter Braun after her company acquired the record label to which Swift previously belonged, giving her a majority participation in the Masters (Original material used to create vinyl, cedes and digital copies) of its first six albums.
Swift said he had actively tried to resume control of his Mastersbut in November 2020 he said he had learned that the rights of his first six albums had been sold to the private capital company Shamrock Holdings, supposedly more than 300 million dollars.
The heated dispute, together with the determination of the singer to re -record those albums, opened an argument about who is the owner of an artist’s work, in addition to the conditions in which young talents sign their contracts.
The owner of the lucrative Masters It has power to determine how the songs are sold and reproduced.
