Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorTaylor Swift was honored with the National Music Publishers Association’s Songwriter Icon Award during the trade organization’s annual membership meeting on Wednesday (June 9), which was held virtually due to the ongoing pandemic.In presenting the award, NMPA president/CEO David Israelite spoke not only of her achievements as a songwriter and artist, but also of her work as an advocate for creators, particularly noting that she had pulled her music from Spotify for three years in a successful effort to improve its royalty payments, and also for speaking out against Apple Music’s policies regarding royalties on trial subscriptions — which were reversed the day after she spoke.After Swift’s speech, which follows.
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