Taylor Swift has confirmed that her Big Machine-released master rights catalogue has been sold for a second time. Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings recently offloaded her first six albums to private equity firm Shamrock Holdings for a reported $300 million.In an update posted on social media, Swift says that she had only learned of the deal last month – after it had been completed – when Shamrock contacted her.
As well as the master rights in the albums, the deal also includes related music videos and album artwork. Shamrock getting in touch was a bit of a surprise, she says, because she was in the process of attempting to buy the catalogue herself.“This was the second time my music had been sold without my knowledge”, she writes.
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