Stupid question What exactly did Taylor Swift do that people are praising her.

[diabeticman]

I have heard some people talking about it but I don't know what she did that some liberal talk show host are talking about her.

[Kelvin Mace]

1. Being a massive hypocrite from what I see

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/06/23/is-taylor-swift-a-hero-or-a-hypocrite-some-photographers-say-its-the-latter/

[Travis_0004]

3. I don't really see a problem with this.

Her concert, her rules. Don't like it, go shoot somewhere else.

Taylor didn't like Apples terms, and threatened to take her business somewhere else. She is important enough that Apple backed down. If Ansel Adams wanted to take some photos of Taylor swift, I'm sure he could have special rules (I realize he is dead, just using him as an example). If Joe the photographer wants a special contract, I'm sure nobody cares

[diabeticman]

5. I can see where some people would say she is being a hyprocrite about the issue --thank you for the

article-- I can see how maybe her selfness/thinking kind of helps independent artists who now can sell music through media like apple. That free month was really hurting artists. My wife and I have one relative and One friend who have recorded music and sell it through that type of media do not get the full amount you pay. a portion of it goes to apple or amazon or whatever program you are on. So if Apple profits from it it seems they are double dipping.

[LuvLoogie]

6. The contract refers to images recorded at a concert.

Not a photo shoot set up by the photographer. There is a false equivalence set up in this article.

The photographs taken at a concert are more analogous to a video or audio recording of the concert. The photographer is allowed first rights for journalistic purposes, but he cannot then go and create posters of it for sale, for instance.

She is a savvy business person, and not a hypocrite in this. And she did a good turn with the streaming royalties issue.

[diabeticman]

8. Thanks for clarifying.

[G_j]

10. good summation,

Because of her stature, she was able to accomplish something that will benefit other artists as well.

[Nite Owl]

2. I think it was about Apple

Yury weren't giving artists royalties for their 3mo trial on a new music thing. She wrote them and they responded positively, royalties will now be paid.

[mythology]

4. Apple is launching a new music service similar to something like Spotify

$10 a month per person, or $15 for a family account with an introductory 3 month free trial. Apple negotiated an agreement with the major record labels to not pay royalties for that 3 month period, I believe for a slightly higher rate after 3 months than Spotify pays.

Taylor Swift, being a very popular artist who isn't on one of the big 5 music labels, as well as a number of artists on smaller independent music labels, objected to the idea that their work was going to be given away for free.

Granted it still doesn't get around the generally horrible contracts with the record labels which means that artists get roughly nothing from services like Spotify, but it's a start.

[diabeticman]

7. okay. That is what a couple people I know complained about. They are independent artist who are

able to make money and gain more followers by these new medias and make money.

[onehandle]

9. If she doesn't stream her latest album on June 30th exclusively through Apple...

...I will be very surprised.