A record label took all his past Taylor Swift, lost the job he did on the first six albums that catapulted him to success, however, raising his voice and making visible what happens in record labels, he became one of the few artists who managed to control and own everything he does.
Andrea Pastor, a lawyer and specialist in the music and entertainment industry, explains that Swift, which is currently signed with Universal music In the US, she will own the master’s degree at the end of the contract, although she has negotiated with the record label that she will instead grant them a license or temporary authorization so that she can use her tracks.
“When she signs with Universal, she says, ‘I had to make a sacrifice, give up my past and see for my future,’ because from her album Lover, she owns everything, which is an unprecedented question, just artists like her they manage to make such contracts ”.
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But what happened to Taylor?
According to Pastor, who worked in Capitol Records, an American record label owned by Universal Music Group when Taylor signed with them, comments that in the world of record labels, on the one hand, there are copyrights in terms of lyrics and music, and on the other hand , interpretation, which in slang is called master.
“When you sign a recording contract, in the industry standard, the label requires that everything you record, all the shows, be from the label, so all those Taylor albums from one to six (master’s) are from Big Machine records, with whom he signed when he started his career.
“For the music and lyrics part, Taylor signed with Sony / ATV Music Publishing. The controversy arose with the record company that had its owners “.
300 MILLION DOLLARS was the masters’ sale of his first six albums.
It all started, he says, when Swift was about to sign a contract with Big Machine Records, owned by Scott Borchetta; To stay with him, she asked for the return of the master’s degree and he said yes, as long as he signed a new contract and for every new album he released, he will return one.
“But Taylor said, ‘No, thank you, I’d better go with another label,’ and that’s how he signed with Universal.”
The lawyer explains that Big Machine Records was later acquired by Scooter Braun, which Taylor accused of making intimidation.
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“For her it was a double problem: the fact that she could not regain ownership of the masters and that her work was sold to a person with whom she does not get along.”
As if that wasn’t enough, Scooter also sold Taylor’s records to Shamrock Holdings for more than $ 300 million without being notified.
But now, after his contract with Big Machine Records expired, he is free to re-record his records without Scooter, despite the fact that he owns those productions, being able to use them because he will not have the rights to the lyrics and music.
“Taylor is blocking all these people from his old label and anyone who has his masters from the past,” the lawyer added.
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OTHER PROCEDURES FOR HIS SONGS
Prince It changed its name to Love Symbol in the 1990s, when it fought Warner. In 2014 he recovered the rights to his catalog. 
Bob Dylan He lost rights to several songs, including “Blowin ‘in the Wind,” when the label sold Michael Jakson’s catalog.
Paul McCartney suffered to regain rights to his songs; It was unlikely that he had to pay to sing “Hey Jude.”