“All the music I have made … Now … it belongs to me,” says Taylor Swift in a handwritten letter published on his website, in which he thanks his fans for the “passionate” support during his battle to recover the rights of his first studio albums after the record in which he recorded them was sold.
This includes, “the musical videos, the movies of my concerts, the art and photography of my albums, the unpublished songs, the memories, the magic, the madness. Each tour. All the work of my life,” he explains.
“Saying that my biggest dream has come true is little,” says the 35 -year -old superstar that began his career in country music.
Swift would have paid to the Shamrock Holdings investment fund, the last owner of his music, 360 million dollars to acquire the rights of his work, according to Billboard publication.
This agreement ends a battle for the rights of its music that has lasted six years, since in the summer of 2019 the magnate of the Scooter Braun industry bought the Big Machine record, which published the first six albums of the artist. Braun then sold it to the Shamrock Holdings investment fund for allegedly 300 million dollars.
The Pop megaestrella began to rewrite with great success four of the first six albums that carry the seal “Taylor’s version”, in an effort to devalue the original recordings.
Feel a precedent
The composer of one of the greatest planetary successes, “All Too Well”, appreciates the “passionate support” of her fans and the successful two -year -old tour -which ended last December with a collection of more than 2 billion dollars after 179 concerts of more than three hours each-, which have allowed him to “buy” his music, he writes.
Likewise, he thanks the Shamrock Capital Fund to negotiate with her. “It was a commercial agreement for them but I feel that they understood what I supposed for me: my memories and my sweat, my writing, and my decades of dreams,” he says.
The heated dispute, together with the determination of the singer to recording her first 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.
EE (AFP, Taylorswift, X)
