Evidently, starting next year, Swift will have the legal right to do something harmful to the owners of Big Machine Records- rerecord her old songs. The owners of that company currently have the legal right to prevent her from playing her old songs. There are many artists who I think have been exploited by the executives of their industry, but Taylor Swift isn't one of them. I expect that she was generously compensated for giving up ownership of those songs. If she wants to change the terms of that deal, the other parties have offered to negotiate.
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#12I think there are two things that weaken Swift’s message here:
1/ There’s no need to call out gender — “be a good little girl and shut up”, referring to “these men”, etc. Not during 2019’s entertainment industry harassment crisis. This is an intellectual property rights issue but it feels like Swift is trying to nudge it in another direction, unfairly.
2/ When your net worth is measured in the hundreds of millions of dollars it seems calculating and disingenuous to try to have your way in the court of public opinion. Asking your fans to directly contact the other party in the legal dispute feels like straight up bullying.
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#14>The message being sent to me is very clear. Basically, be a good little girl and shut up. Or you’ll be punished. >This is WRONG. Is that the message? Is it not the case that this is the result of a legally binding contract?
Right. Is this just celebrity with a huge audience privilege whereby they get to skirt contracts they signed by leveraging their fan base to exert pressure on the other party?
How ever much of a dick move it may or may not be from the other party, she’s absolutely guaranteed to drum up more public support for her grievance by framing it as though there was some sort of sexism involved, than she would be otherwise.
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#15Can someone explain the background here? I only have a vague idea of how the music industry works. I don't understand what's going on here.
/r/OutOfTheLoop is good for stuff like this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/cdx1ve/why_ar...
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#16Can someone explain the background here? I only have a vague idea of how the music industry works. I don't understand what's going on here.
Taylor Swift signed a deal with a record label instead of being an independent artist because it seemed (and possibly was) advantageous at the time and now that she is rich and famous and doesn't need the label, she no longer wants to hold up her side of the deal (giving the label certain rights to her earlier music for a certain period of time) and so now she is playing victim to get her fans to pressure the label i…
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#17For those who, like me, don't visit the domain called facebook dot com: https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/1195123215657508867...
To be fair Twitter isn't overwhelmingly better.
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#18Can someone explain the background here? I only have a vague idea of how the music industry works. I don't understand what's going on here.
Taylor Swift signed a deal with a record label instead of being an independent artist because it seemed (and possibly was) advantageous at the time and now that she is rich and famous and doesn't need the label, she no longer wants to hold up her side of the deal (giving the label certain rights to her earlier music for a certain period of time) and so now she is playing victim to get her fans to pressure the label i…
It should be noted that music label contracts are notoriously one-sided, and artists often make their labels millions without seeing a dime themselves.
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#19Wait, so she sold "her" music and it's no longer hers.... What am I missing here?
> On Sunday, June 30 [2019], it was announced that Scooter Braun and his company, Ithaca Holdings LLC, acquired Scott Borchetta’s Big Machine Label Group in a deal that’s reportedly worth over $300 million. Through buying Borchetta’s company, Braun now also has ownership of Taylor Swift’s master recordings made when she was with the label, including her first six albums. https://www.bustle.com/p/why-doesnt-taylor-swi…
> in a deal that’s reportedly worth over $300 million
So if she were to really put the money where her mouth is, she could probably buy the rights to her old records with her reported $360 million of net worth, or find a more friendly recording label willing to do so.
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#20Is this the end of hacker news?