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!
Here’s a great article that covers it quite well:
Re-Recording Your Old Songs: How Taylor Swift is “Shaking Off” Her Old Record Company
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.
Thank you! I think I understand it now. Legal eagle is the shit. I didn’t even think to check his channel about this.
He’s so damn good at explaining leagalnese.
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.
Music copyright has a notion of “compulsory licensing”; as long as the original creator is credited and the copyright holder paid a statutory fee, anyone can record & publish covers of any published piece of music.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license
https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ73.pdfSo she has to pay Scooter Bruan to re record her songs?
