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Problem In Music: Even Taylor Swift Doesn’t Own Her Own Work

MUSIC Posted: July 1, 2019 6:00 am

Not only has her former label not let the singer buy back her own masters, but Scooter Braun, a powerful music mogul whom Swift calls a manipulative bully, has bought the entire label (likely sold to him specifically because Swift wouldn’t re-sign with her former label). It’s a nightmare scenario for many singers and singer-songwriters. “‘This is what happens when you sign a deal at fifteen to someone for whom the term ‘loyalty’ is clearly just a contractual concept,’ Swift wrote on Sunday.” – The New York Times

MUSIC Published: 06.30.19

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 06.30.19

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