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  • all right over Taylor Swift has hit out at her former record label for selling her back catalog to a private equity firm, the global pop sensation said on Monday.

  • It was the second time her music had been sold off without her knowledge.

  • The deal, reported to be worth $300 million for six of her old albums, was reached last month between Big Machine record label on investment firm Shamrock Holdings.

  • Swift left the label back in 2018.

  • On the following year.

  • The company was bought by music executive Scooter Braun.

  • Braun in the pop singer, had been involved in a bitter public dispute over the rights to her music ever since.

  • Swift has spent the last year trying to regain ownership of her albums.

  • On accuses Braun off trying to get her to sign a non disclosure agreement before he would enter into negotiations with her.

  • In a letter posted on Twitter on Monday, she said, I would have to sign a document that would silence me forever before I could even have a chance to bid on my own work.

  • My legal team said that this is absolutely not normal.

  • He would not even quote my team a price.

  • Swift says she only found out her music had been sold when the purchasing firm Shamrock contacted her directly on that.

  • Braun will continue to profit off her old music catalog for years to come.

  • She says she has started re recording her old songs instead.

all right over Taylor Swift has hit out at her former record label for selling her back catalog to a private equity firm, the global pop sensation said on Monday.

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