Taylor Swift, getting closer to re-recording her music after the latest judicial setback
If a few days ago we told you that Taylor Swift had won the legal battle against her old record company and could finally recover the rights to her first five albums, now the one from Pennsylvania has had to face a new setback: a fund of Investment has just bought the rights to several years of his music. One more obstacle that adds to the long legal battle in which the artist has been immersed since she began to take off her career internationally.
Big Machine, the origin of the dispute
Since she released Folklore by surprise, Taylor Swift has done nothing more than climb positions in music charts as important as the Billboard 200. But many of her listeners are unaware of the great struggle that the artist has had to deal with to regain the rights. of all his releases. In fact, all the hype came as a result of the purchase of Big Machine, the record company that launched Debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Lover, Red and 1989.
The problems began when Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta, representatives of artists like Justin Bieber and Demi Lovato, bought a large part of the record company with which Swift signed with only 15 years. And precisely, in that sale and purchase action, they also acquired the rights to the singer's songs for a value of 300 million dollars.
Now, is there a solution to this? Will Taylor be back in possession of what is hers? The interpreter of "Fearless" is boasting precisely that title and carried out a complaint where she revealed that neither of the two - neither Scooter nor Scott - let her sing songs from their previous albums live or that she could not even use their songs in any audiovisual format. But the contract that Swift signed when she began her artistic career said nothing about making new covers, so the singer would have a free hand to re-record her songs at the end of 2020.
Shamrock Holdings, Swift's new hurdle
Can you imagine an international artist fighting to regain her rights? It is a reality from which Taylor seems not to dissociate himself. After taking a step forward a few weeks ago, the artist has seen how Shamrock Holdings, an investment fund totally unrelated to the recording industry, is now in legal possession of the rights to five of her albums.
"A few weeks ago, my team received a letter from a private equity company called Shamrock Holdings informing us that they had bought most of my music, videos and covers from Scooter Braun," began Taylor on her official Instagram account. "This has been the second time my music has been sold without my knowledge. The letter told me that they wanted to communicate before the sale to inform me, but that Scooter Braun had required that they not contact me or my team or the deal was I would cancel, "the interpreter concluded in her letter.
If her words were true, Taylor would have no choice but to get back into the studio and undertake the arduous task of covering each and every one of the songs that made up her first five record projects. Because she is in possession of the lyrics, but she lacks the ownership of the audios. Hence, she wants to re-record her songs and fight for streaming platforms such as Spotify - from which she has already been absent for a season because she does not adapt to what she understands as a business model - to use her music and pay for the new versions and not for all those issues that remain in the hands of the investment fund. Will she be able to mobilize her fans to achieve such an event?
