After losing her masters to Scooter Braun, Taylor Swift is in the process of making new ones.
Taylor Swift’s third full album of rereleased vintage classics — Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) — has arrived.
The whole process began, though, back in 2019. That’s when the news broke that Swift’s old record label — Big Machine Records, which she left in 2018 — had been sold to music megamanager Scooter Braun. The sale gave Braun the rights to all the master recordings for Swift’s old music, meaning that anyone who wanted to license one of Swift’s old songs to play in a TV show or movie or an ad would have to ask for Braun’s permission and pay him a licensing fee.
