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My Thoughts on Taylor Swift, Copyrights and Master Files.

02/08/2019 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Business & Legalities, L.J. Diva, Music & Radio, TIARA KING Leave a Comment

 

Let’s talk about Taylor Swift, copyrights and master files, shall we.

 

I’ve been sitting on this post for two reasons.

1 – Because I had a writing holiday coming up, and

2 – Because I wanted to see how it would play out.

Pretty much how one would suspect anything to do with Taylor Swift these days would turn out.

You had those defending her, and her right to own her own masters. And those who bitched that she was causing trouble once more because she’s such a troublemaker.

Apparently, any woman standing up for her right to own her own work is a troublemaker.

Well, fuck you!

She stood up for her rights with not allowing her songs on Spotify, and called out Apple music for not paying enough.

There are two issues here. Copyright, and the master files.

When it comes to copyright, one MUST own it. Sadly, musicians, just like authors, are so desperate to get that deal that they bypass the clause that states how many years the company will own your product for.

Sadly, people are that desperate for a record or book deal. And even more sadly, none of them are willing to talk about it because of what? Their guilt, shame, stupidity will show the world how stupid they were for taking a deal that did them out of their work. Many mid-list authors are dudded out of their work, just google authors and their horror stories.

This sort of thing has been going on for decades, so is nothing new. This Vanity Fair article mentions several other artists who managed to do deals to get their masters back. But here are a couple more stories about artists dudded out of their own work.

The Beatles lost their catalogue, and years later, Michael Jackson bought them all, completely pissing off Paul McCartney who he’d worked with on several hit songs.

Murray Wilson, father of Beach Boy Brian Wilson sold off their catalogue for $700,000. If you saw the movie from a few years ago where John Cusak played the older Brian, it was mentioned in the movie that the father sold them off because they “wouldn’t amount to much”.

Authors have been fighting for their copyrights for years. In many contracts, the publishing house keeps the book for thirty-five years and even then you may not get the rights reverted if they can still sell the book in reprints. If they can claim sales, they can claim ownership.

Many smaller trad pub houses can revert rights back to authors, but only if the author asks for, or fights for, their rights to their books. And even then, there may be conditions. Many indie authors are smart, if approached with a publishing deal, they have clauses put in their contract that states the pub house will only get the print rights (or foreign, audio, or electronic) for a small number of years, such as five or seven, as sadly, many books just don’t sell and publishers don’t do anything with them, especially publicise them.

In the Vanity Fair article it states – “It’s also not uncommon to see indie acts talk about the importance of owning one’s masters, usually to avoid a fate that isn’t as discussed: older albums languishing in the vaults of labels that no longer care to promote them. In theory, labels say they can’t be profitable without owning the masters. In practice, they aren’t doing all they can to either marshall profit from the rights they do own, or shepherd their collections usefully.”

So, if indie authors can own their own books, then musicians can own their own masters.

For people, mainly Taylor Swift haters who hate on her for standing up for her rights to own her work, clearly they are uneducated. They’re possibly the type who would rather steal the songs online than buy them, just as some people would rather steal a book from an illegal website and then whinge about the author complaining about not making any money. Some people are just ungrateful, uneducated, entitled, ignorant, arrogant arseholes who think the world owes them and so steal where they can, meanwhile, like authors who write their own books; Taylor Swift worked her arse off for what she has and is more than entitled to defend her personal property rights. Yes, she still owns the copyright, just not the masters, and that, to me, is no different from the originally handwritten stories I write. They are my master files, the master manuscript, the copyrighted master that I personally own.

As an author, I will never sell them unless it’s under my contract. I will never give them away; I would rather burn them and let no one have them.

And this is what many just don’t understand. They do not understand the legalities of copyright, intellectual property rights, and owning your own masters. Many celebrities are on Taylor’s side, cheering her on for standing up for her ownership rights, while others try and knock her down as a woman and an artist by calling her a troublemaker. Because, again, any woman standing up for her right to own her own work is a troublemaker.

Scooter Braun has his ingrates defending him. But, quite frankly, having the likes Bieber and Lovato, two very mentally unhealthy and unstable people, defending you, doesn’t make you look good.

As for Scott Borchetta, former owner of Big Machine Records, claiming that her dad should have told her as he’s a shareholder of Big Machine when her father could not legally tell her anything due to contracts he’d signed, was a lame excuse. Offering to give Taylor one album back for every album she made for him was a shit deal all round, and he knows it. She’s been his biggest money earner, and he just didn’t want to let her have them back.

I’m glad she’s standing up for herself, and it really pisses me off as a forty-five year old woman that women are still treated intolerably, by men and women, when standing up for their intellectual rights.

I remember years back when Taylor had her squad and she’d made a statement about knowing who she wanted around her, and if you couldn’t be her friend, and just wanted to be a user, then she wasn’t interested.

Many women abused her for that, yet ironically, that was what Oprah and Dr Phil had talked about many a decade before, getting rid of the toxic people and users out of your life. Well, that’s all Taylor was doing, and she was slammed for it, seemingly, by females her age that were clearly a long way off learning that lesson that was already decades old. But then, many people, women especially, never seem to learn that lesson until well into their 30s, 40s or 50s plus. Taylor learned it in her mid-20s.

Good for her, I say. And good for her for standing up for her rights when it comes to her ownership of her product. Music, lyrics, plays, books, screenplays, whatever it is, owners need to stand up for their rights when it comes to ownership and take charge, otherwise, you get used, abused, and dudded out of a deal.

Taylor is standing up for her rights, and the rights of those coming behind, and for some reason, some people are just too blind to see that.

 

 

I’m getting musical by getting back on the Train wagon!

30/03/2017 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: IMPORTED FROM LJDIVA.COM, JEWEL DIVAS STYLE, L.J. Diva, Music & Radio 4 Comments

Back in 2015 I was addicted to Queen for some reason, now, I’m addicted to Train. They’ve toured here on tv shows to promote songs etc, and I while I’ve only got three cds on my iPod I’ve got two more coming, and now we’ve got their new song here in Aus which is at the bottom.

But my fave is still 50 Ways To Say Goodbye and Drive By, but there are so many more good songs on their cds. Below is just a few of their videos, gotta love the cameo by David Hasslehoff.

I’m going old school in my music obsession with Queen

22/10/2015 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: IMPORTED FROM LJDIVA.COM, JEWEL DIVAS STYLE, L.J. Diva, Music & Radio Leave a Comment

For some reason I’ve recently become addicted to Queen songs.

Maybe it’s because I hear the same three on the radio constantly, or maybe it’s because a really huge part of my wants to sing and play the piano like Freddie Mercury!

There’s a frustrated singer/musician in many of us who cannot sing or play, and we dream of being able to rock it with the best of them at any given time.

So maybe, that’s why I’m addicted. It’s fulfilling something inside of me, or dealing with something inside of me that needs to resolve itself.

Either way, I’ve showcased the four songs I need most right now, so, enjoy.

I may not be a rock star, but I’d have only orange lollies on my rider!

10/09/2015 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Fun Stuff, IMPORTED FROM LJDIVA.COM, JEWEL DIVAS STYLE, L.J. Diva, Music & Radio Leave a Comment

 

Have you ever thought about it?

We constantly hear about what musos, actors, artists have on their riders and request or demand for backstage or their hotel rooms, but what would you have on yours?

I personally wouldn’t have much. Pepsi Max, KFC or roast chicken and chips (fries to some), M&Ms and orange lollies, if I wanted lollies that is.

Why orange?

Because, strangely, orange is the only colour/flavour that doesn’t make me feel sick.

I knew years ago it was that way with jelly beans, and the last few years I’ve realised it’s that way with snakes, jelly babies and other flavoured jelly lollies.

I have no idea why it’s orange, maybe there’s less sugar or something in them, but I can eat them and not feel sick afterwards. As for chocolate, a lot of it makes me sick, M&Ms don’t, which is why I’d pick them.

As for other food, what would you guys have on your rider?

 

One Direction broke up, Jeremy Clarkson got sacked, The X-Files is back and Pretty Woman is 25.

26/03/2015 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Celebrities, IMPORTED FROM LJDIVA.COM, JEWEL DIVAS STYLE, L.J. Diva, Movies & TV, Music & Radio 2 Comments

Four big things happened in the world of entertainment this week.
 
First – Pretty Woman turned 25. That’s right, the hooker and the playboy turned 25. Some of the cast turned up on America’s The Today Show and all Julia did was constantly talk over everyone else. I see Jason Alexander wasn’t there but then maybe he no longer wants to be linked to it, considering Seinfeld and all.
 
 
 
Second, The X-Files are coming back, only for six episodes unfortunately. I wonder if they’ll bring Scully and Mulder’s kid into it as he clearly showed natural alien abilities when she left him with his new family. We’ll just have to wait and see.

Third, the BBC finally, after a few weeks of turbulent times, decided to sack Jeremy Clarkson after he punched a producer for not getting him a steak. As many have said, he’s rich enough that it doesn’t matter but any other station would want him and will send out the offers. Top Gear itself will survive after all these years.

Fourth, One Direction is falling apart. Not only did Louis break up with his girlfriend, once again becoming a single man, but Zayn has quit the band all together after first leaving the current tour for a few shows due to “stress”, although it could also be that rumours had him and his fiancée breaking up after he supposedly cheated on her and got caught at it, so who knows. He’s been missing over the last year for several TV and tour appearances and has looked quite gaunt and sick, like his health has seriously suffered. So now he has officially quit One Direction. 
Hey Simon, One Direction are your biggest money earners, take bloody care of them instead of milking them for all you can.Look what you had to put up with, with Susan Boyle. She constantly threw tanties and ended up in health facilities because of her condition. Who wants to deal with that all over again? 

Will One D continue in its now altered state? Take That survived the exit of Robbie Williams, albeit for only a year. But when they reunited it was as a four piece and they were hugely successful until Jason wanted to leave again. Backstreet Boys were a foursome when they reunited as Kevin wasn’t interested. 

Many bands suffer the loss of a member through leaving or death, many move on with the band, many break up. Are Directioners going to still love them as a foursome? I don’t see why not. There should be enough fans who still love the remaining four to stick with them regardless of the fact one has now left. If you stop loving a band simply because a member leaves then that says more about you than them. 



GRL’s Ugly Heart. Loving the song but NOT the video

19/08/2014 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: IMPORTED FROM LJDIVA.COM, JEWEL DIVAS STYLE, L.J. Diva, Music & Radio Leave a Comment

Ever since I heard the GRL song, Ugly Heart, it has been on my iPod on high rotation. even when it comes on the radio it gets turned up loud. Now I’ve seen the film clip and I have questions and comments (after the video)
 
1 – what the hell has this video even got to do with the song?
 
2 – there had to be two trashy blondes in it. Clearly not their natural hair colour.
 
3 – the directors/producers/stylists had to use trashy, tight, sexy outfits when the song wasn’t even about that.
 
Why can’t a female singer/group not get their clothes off in a video? Why does every female need to be sexualised and stripped bare? Why the hell do females feel the need to remove their clothes, or wear tight jumpsuits that shows there’s no underwear underneath? And that bikini top thing she was wearing looked like it was painted on and she was too scared to move in case it fell off, or melted.
 
I LOVE the song, but seriously, the video could have been a whole lot better than them being arrested in a tattoo parlour that had nothing whatsoever to do with the song. And the miming was atrocious!
 
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