Swifties around the world are celebrating one more triumph of Taylor Swift who this afternoon announced through his social Redeems that he recovered the rights of his first six albums recorded between 2006 and 2017: Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Grid, 1989 and Reputation.
This dispute gave rise to one of the largest musical phenomena currently: the Taylor’s version And today in Harper’s Bazaar We tell you why.
At the beginning of his career, Taylor Swift He worked with the Big Machine Records, founded by Scott Borchettawho possessed the rights of the recordings of Taylor Swift, which implies that only the label could make decisions about these materials, for example, decide how the original recordings were used (the Masters) In films, series, commercial, in addition Taylor Swift He did not receive royalties as a composer, but not as owner of the masters.
Although this situation derives in a musical movement (Taylor’s version) The singer has been able to be able to be able to be able to re -regulate her first six productions since she could not do it, however, she achieved it after several years in dispute, because in 2019, Scooter Braun (through her company Ithaca Holdings) bought Big Machine Records, and with that acquired the rights of the original masters Of those six albums.
It is true that Taylor Swift He publicly expressed his disagreement, stating that he was not given the opportunity to buy his masters and that he did not want Scooter Braun (whom he considers a figure of harassment) had control over his music.
As of today, Taylor Swift has recovered the property of his first six albums, which implies that the negotiations about her work will be directly with her without a third party in the profits since she now owns all her productions, so that her legacy and artistic identity are saved again under her control, so she can make commercial decisions when recovering symbolicly and economically the custody of her discs.
