Taylor Swift: Don’t know what else to do
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Taylor Swift: Don’t know what else to do
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#2Wait, so she sold "her" music and it's no longer hers....
What am I missing here?
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#3For those who, like me, don't visit the domain called facebook dot com: https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/1195123215657508867...
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#4(not a tay tay fan. not actually listening to much music these days, I can't quite get Bach and Beefheart out of my head)
Normally I'm a "the contract sets the limits" person but in artist's rights, an given the extent to which artists are both young, and exploited, and wind up in legally dubious relationships which then magify out and up, I think the intent should be "what's the right thing here, no matter what the contract says"
And I think unless she received heinous amounts of fuck you money, and sold her rights for their current worth, unless she did that, if this is just normal A&R nickel-and-diming, then they should be told to go away, and she should get to perform her songs.
"you can't perform your songs" is a very sad place to wind up. it does nobody any good.
She very possibly did receive heinous amounts of A&R support but I would also believe a lot of leeching has been going on. The industry is a giant machine to suck revenue out of art and put it into tax efficient structures for other people.
They learned from masters: the movie industry. Who did those masters learn from? The Sheet music industry.
Pop will eat itself.
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#5>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?
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#6Can 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.
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#7>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?
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#8She’s too young and her music is too recent to invoke her right to terminate her copyright transfer, which would otherwise be a nice solution.
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#9Wait, 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-swift-own-the-rig...
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#10Can 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 into giving her more generous rights to the music she signed to them.
Basically when you sign with a record label you give them certain rights with respect to creative control, music ownership and licensing in exchange for them investing in helping you produce and market your music to a wide audience, network in the industry, tour, etc. In short, they help you make it big and take on early costs and risks and in exchange you make them rich if you do become extremely successful.