Taylor swift manager is selling her “masters” ,what is a masters?
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He isn’t, nor has he ever been her manager. He is a businessman who bought a company she recorded music for.
When you record music for a recording company, they own that version of the music, those recordings are what are referred to as Masters. When money is paid for those recordings (album sales, streaming revenue, radio play or licensed for commercial use), the money goes to the company, who then pay royalty to the artist, and anyone else contracted to receive payment (such as the writer).
In Taylor Swift’s case, she is credited as a writer on almost all of her songs. This gives her rights on where her songs can be sold (so she can veto if the company wants to let it appear in a movie or advert).
The masters have been sold by Braun, who bought out her old music label, to an investment company, who presumably had hoped to work with Taylor.
She has instead said she intends to re-record and re-release her original six albums (the only 6 she doesn’t own the masters of herself), because she had previously been prevented from doing so by contract, but that requirement has now (or will soon) lapse.
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