Taylor Swift’s lawyer insists that she wasn’t given chance to buy rights to her own music

 

 

Taylor Swift’s attorney has insisted that she was not given the “opportunity” to buy back her master recordings or purchase Big Machine Records

The ME! hitmaker herself posted a statement after she found out that Scooter Braun had purchased the record label – which she was signed to from 2005 to 2018 – from Scott Borchetta over the weekend for a reported $300 million, and obtained the ME! hitmaker’s back catalogue of master recordings.

 

Former Big Machine Records boss Scott disputed Taylor’s account and insisted that she was offered a new record deal which would have given her back all her “assets”, including the master recordings and implied that she knew about the deal before it was announced, something which the Bad Blood hitmaker’s representative insisted its untrue.

 

Her lawyer Donald Passman has told PEOPLE.com: “Scott Borchetta never gave Taylor Swift an opportunity to purchase her masters, or the label, outright with a check, in the way he is now apparently doing for others.”

 

The business deal infuriated Taylor and she took to her social networking sites to claim that she was never given the choice to buy the masters herself and she is “sad and grossed out” that they are now owned by Scooter.

 

 

 

Since posting her statement – which detailed the deal as her “worst case scenario” – several stars have come to the defence of both Taylor and Scooter with public statements, but Scooter himself has remained silent, with sources now saying that he’ll only discuss the matter in private with the Look What You Made Me Do singer

An insider said: “Scooter is open to having a private conversation with Taylor to clear up everything that went down. He reposted some messages of support on his Instagram Stories, but he has no intention of releasing a formal statement and blowing up the situation even more than it already has been. This is between Scooter and Taylor, not the world.”

 

 Taylor’s ME! collaborator Brendon Urie, Halsey, and Cara Delevingne have publicly shared messages of support for Taylor, whilst Nicki Minaj, Adele, Miley Cyrus, Gwen Stefani, Rihanna, Lana Del Rey, Selena Gomez and Camila Cabello have all reportedly stopped following Scooter on social media since the row broke out.

Ariana Grande originally posted a message of support for Scooter – who is her manager – on her Instagram Story, but later deleted the post, while another of Scooter’s artists, Justin Bieber, has publicly defended him.

 

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