Taylor Swift popularized fighting for masters. Are more artists getting ownership?

When Taylor Swift appeared on the podcast New Heights in August, she said she'd been saving up to buy back her master recordings since she was a teenager.

"I thought about not owning my music every day," Swift stated on the show, which is co-hosted by her fiancé, Travis Kelce. "It was like an intrusive thought that I had every day."

Swift already owned the publishing rights to her music, which apply to the composition and lyrics of a song. But the masters rights for her first six albums — which means the actual recorded versions of her songs and music videos — belonged to her first label, Big Machine Records, as is standard in the music industry. This year, Swift finally struck a deal and reclaimed the master recordings from Shamrock Capitol, the private equity firm that acquired them in