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The Emily Show

Can Taylor Swift Sing Her Own Music?

The Emily Show

Baker Media, LLC.

True Crime, Entertainment News, News

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On November 14, 2019, Taylor Swift took to Twitter to say that she isn’t being allowed to sing her own music when she receives Artist of the Decade at the Amerian Music Awards. So how is that even a thing right? We are going to explore how copyright law in the context of music means that the artist doesn’t always own their own music

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0:00.0

All right, friends, I've got a special episode for you today because there's something we just have to talk about.

0:09.9

Can Taylor Swift sing her own music at the AMAs?

0:15.6

Let's jump into today's episode and find out.

0:19.8

Hey there, this is Get Legit Lawn Shit and I'm Emily D Baker badass lawyer for online

0:25.3

business I've been a licensed attorney for over 15 years and I'm a former

0:29.6

prosecutor so yeah I know some shit and we going to talk about the legal shit you need to know but don't worry

0:36.0

This is not another boring business podcast so let's get started started. All right, you guys, swifties or not, you can't avoid the news right now

0:51.6

about whether or not Taylor Swift is going to be allowed to

0:54.8

perform her own music at the AMAs or the American Music Awards. Now the AMAs are

1:01.7

airing November 24th 2019 so if you're listening to this after that

1:08.0

go watch it on YouTube and find out what happened if you're listening before that, let's talk about what is going on with

1:18.1

Kaye in her music. So we know that there's beef between Taylor and her old label.

1:24.0

She left her old label, her original label that she signed with when she was a kid,

1:29.0

Big Machine.

1:31.0

So she left Big Machine and moved over to Universal about a year ago. In June, Big

1:37.7

Machine sold and that included Taylor Swift's music library and we're going to get into what that means for an artist in just a few minutes

1:49.2

But Big Machine was purchased for 300 million dollars by Scooter Braun and you'll hear that name come up.

1:55.8

He used to up Kagni West, he reps, what's his nuts?

2:02.2

Justin Bieber. What's his nuts?

2:17.0

Justin Bieber and a number of other big names in the record industry. So when this all went down and it came out that Big Machine was going to sell and the guy who sold Big Machine is Scott Borchetta. So you'll hear both of these names Scott and Scooter.

2:21.9

By the way, what adult still goes by

2:24.2

scooter? Can we just discuss the doucheness of the name Scooter Braun? It's just,

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