After almost six years of legal disputes, regrabations and a public battle for the rights of his work, Taylor Swift He has announced that he is already absolute owner of his original masters. The singer shared the news through a statement on her website, where she said that “all the music I have done … now belongs to me.”
The story began in 2019, when Scooter Braun Big Machine Records acquired, the seal that had the masters of the first six albums of Taylor Swift. Without prior notice to the artist, this purchase was described by her as her “worst possible scenario.” In response, he launched the ambitious project to re -record all those albums under the seal Taylor’s versionmanaging to launch new versions of Fearless, Grid, Speak Now and 1989.
Now, according to information from Billboard, Swift has closed an agreement with Shamrock capitalthe firm that had acquired the masters to Braun in 2020 for 300 million dollars. The singer bought them directly for a figure close to 360 million, thereby achieving the complete control of their catalog, including videos, photographs, filmed concerts and unpublished themes.
In her statement, the artist thanked her fans for unconditional support: “You converted The Eras Tour In a success story that allowed me to do this possible, ”he wrote. He also referred to pending albums to be re -recorded: his homonym and debut Reputationconfessing that the latter has been difficult to approach emotionally, but that he could see the light later “as a celebration.”
This achievement not only marks a key moment in the career of Taylor Swiftbut also opens a broader conversation about the rights of artists and intellectual property in the music industry. New generations of musicians are already negotiating more fair contracts, influenced by this public battle.
The phrase with which the statement closes summarizes everything: “The best things that were once mine … finally are really.”
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