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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't listen to her speech. If she cast it as men taking advantage of women, perhaps she should read the history of the Beatles catalog.

Unfortunately, musicians aren't necessarily talented business people, and even when they are, they may make deals that weigh out differently early in their career vs later in their career. [/quote]

How old was she when she made the deal?  Did she agree to this as a teenager or a 25 year old?[/quote]

My understanding is this is her early work. Are you suggesting her wealthy, educated parents who set her up to be a star did not appropriately protect her interests in the way that she would have protected them? That's possible. It's also possible they made deals that they deemed reasonable early in her career, that now that she's a star appear less appealing. I wonder how many young artists who don't have wealthy, educated parents to bankroll and educate them feel about the decisions they and their legal representatives made early in their careers. And whether female artists are disproportionately affected by bad deals.

In any case, Taylor Swift has the money and the power to address whatever wrongs she feels were done to her. Both individually - e.g. buying back her catalog - and more broadly - e.g. setting up a non-profit that would represent young artists for a cut of their earnings over a designated period of time, ensuring that all rights to their work returns to them eventually while also providing the non-profit with a revenue stream. And Taylor Swift and any other artists who feel wrongly done by (Paul McCartney certainly wasn't thrilled) could provide money to make this happen.[/quote]

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