Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Artists and labels hit out at unofficial NFTs site that allows people to “own a song”
completemusicupdate.comThere has been a flurry of social media posts overnight from artists and labels hitting out at a music NFTs website called HitPiece that is seemingly promoting non-fungible tokens linked to all kinds of music, but without the permission of the artists or labels who made and released that music.
The band Eve 6 were among those to shout about it all on Twitter, delivering that common legal demand: “Cease and desist motherfuckers”.It’s not 100% clear what HitPiece is selling and since the backlash began on social media its website has gone down.
But the official pitch is that people can buy “one of one NFTs of all your favourite songs – own a song, build your unique playlist and join an artist’s community”.It’s possible that what the buyer actually ‘owns’ is the right to say they own a song within the HitPiece community, so basically bragging rights, which is what quite a lot of music NFTs are really selling.
That would mean no actual song or recording was being sold or distributed as part of the deal, which means technically no song or recording copyright would be infringed.However, there might be a case for saying an artist’s trademarks had been exploiting without permission, and in some countries publicity or image rights would probably have been infringed too.
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