Can you copyright an album title? Titles of creative works *cannot* be copyrighted.
Songs, books, poems, albums, films, you name it… their titles can't be copyrighted..
In a legendary move, Taylor re-recorded album: 'Taylor Swift," "Fearless," "Speak Now," "Red," "1989," and "Reputation." These albums are now identified as “Taylor's version." She now not only owns rights to her lyrics and music but also to these new masters.Aug 23, 2023.
American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has written or co-written every song in her discography, with the exception of several cover songs and two guest features, alongside some songs released by other artists..
Swift re-releases the original songs, but puts a “(Taylor's version)” annotation at the end of each song title.
This is being used to both indicate: it is in fact a new recording of a previously recorded song, and. to avoid any trademark issues that would arise from using the same title of a previously released song.Oct 27, 2023.
By re-recording, Swift is technically covering her own songs as new recordings, resulting in new masters she fully owns, enabling her to control the licensing of her songs for commercial use, known as synchronization, by evading the owners of the older masters and subsequently devaluing them..
Taylor's Version has a higher energy score and higher loudness, but lower acousticness.
One example of this is in the second pre-chorus.
There are additional instruments in the background (most noticeably a cello), adding more fullness to Taylor's Version..
Extending rights beyond her name, Taylor Swift trademarked song titles, lyrics … even the names of her cats You probably didn't know that Taylor Swift has trademarked a lot of things.
For example, did you know that she trademarked the phrase “THIS SICK BEAT?” Yep, she sure did..
1 The analysis by Bloomberg News puts Swift's total net worth at $1.1 billion as of October 2023, mainly driven by the success of the U.S. leg of her Eras tour.
Swift is one of the few artists to reach billionaire status from music and performing alone, per Bloomberg..
Biz Markie was known as the rapper who infused his music with humor, but one case was no laughing matter.
Musician Gilbert O’Sullivan sued Biz Markie over “Alone Again,” a song which appeared on the rapper’s 1991 album ,”I Need a Haircut.” O’Sullivan claimed that the use of samples from O’Sullivan’s 1972 hit, “Alone Again (Naturally),” amounted to .
REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs Acquire Licensing Rights Dec 12 (Reuters) - Two songwriters have dropped their lawsuit claiming Grammy-winning musician Taylor Swift copied their lyrics in her 2014 number-one hit "Shake It Off," according to court documents filed on Monday.
In Swift’s case, she owned the Musical Composition of her songs as the lyricist and songwriter.
Her record label, however, owned the Masters of all the music on her albums released before her 2019 album, Lover – even though she was also the performer of her music.
Editor’s Note:
In 2014, a lawsuit was filed by the estate of the late musician Randy Californiaagainst the surviving members of Led Zeppelin and their record label regarding the iconic ‘Stairway to Heaven” song.
The copyright infringement case alleged that the Zeppelin song was taken from the single, “Taurus,” by the 1960s band Spirit, for whom California had ser.
This legal dispute hung on allegations that “Blurred Lines” was evocative of the late Marvin Gaye’s 1977 single “Got to Give It Up.” Gaye’s estate accused Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams of copying the “feel” of the song for their 2013 hit and were initially awarded more than $7 million,but that judgment was later reduced to $5.3 million and the.
Rapper Vanilla Ice insisted that the intro to his 1989 hit, “Ice Ice Baby,” was different enough from David Bowie and Queen’s 1981 song, “Under Pressure,” as to not have been copied. “I sampled it from them, but it’s not the same bass line,” the rapper said during an interview.
Attorney’s for Bowie and Queen didn’t buy it.
The case was settled out .
For example, a songwriter who composes the music and writes the lyrics to a song would own the Musical Composition copyright; while an artist (or, more likely than not, their record label) who records that song would own the Master of the performance.
There are other rights that fall under the umbrella of each.
How does this apply to Taylor Swift? .
