American singer and songwriter Taylor Swift announced Friday that she bought the rights of her first six albums, ending a six -year 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 fans for supporting during her battle to recover the rights of her first studio albums after the record record in which she recorded them was sold.
In the summer of 2019, the star began a public struggle 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, CD and digital copies) of his first six albums.
Swift said he had actively tried to resume the control of his “masters”, but 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, for allegedly 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” has power to determine how the songs are sold and reproduced.
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