I’m so confused. My sister was telling me about how Taylor swift is re recording her old music because scooter Braun owns her old music and she wants to have sole ownership over it.
So how can she release similar or exact copies of songs she doesn’t own but other artist constantly have legal battles for having songs that have some similarities to it? Like Ice Ice Baby for example. Is she not violating copy right laws by doing this?
Edit: good news. I get it now!
So when it comes to copyright music can actually be divided into two things: the song itself (the lyrics and melodies) and the performance of a song (the recording). I don’t know the entire situation but I’m guessing Taylor Swift owns the rights of the songs themselves, but not the rights to the recordings of the songs that were made, so she’s in her right to make her own recordings of the songs and then she would have full ownership of those. (Sidenote: I study composing for media and though copyright is part of my study, I’m not an expert)
I guess it may depend on the rights of scooter. He may only have rights to the recordings themselves and not the lyrics.
Others have answered but I thought I’d throw in a video about the subject for audio-visual learners. Here’s the LegalEagle video on the subject.
Vanilla Ice is actually why “Soundalikes” are legal. Thats right, if it wasn’t for Ice Ice Baby we might not be able to freely make recordings that sound similar to other songs. Shit, the whole EDM industry might have never happened. Of course, people were doing this in hip-hop since the dawn of time. But Ice Ice Baby is what gave it legal precedent.
Care to provide any more backstory on this? That’s absolutely fascinating haha, never would’ve thought that from Ice Ice Baby
I am not looking this up. It came up during a study at a trade achool like 10 years ago. But IIRC he got sued for it sounding like Under Pressure and he had to prove he remade the sound and didn’t rip it from the recording directly. This is important becsuse you get to dip out on royalties.
I’m curious as to what the fan response is. Artists recording newer versions of their songs is not often received well, if for no reason other than that fans tend to still prefer the originals.
Everyone loves the new versions. The new 10 minute version of all too well is amazing. She plays it at her eras concert every night and everyone knows the lyrics by heart
Were those re-recordings? I thought they were just longer edits.
Rerecording and cut verses. Since she owns the sheet and not the recording she had to remake the whole thing.
