How Taylor Swift Buying Back Her Masters Could Impact Her Rerecording Project and More

After a years-long dispute over the ownership of Taylor Swift’s music catalog, the pop superstar can officially call all of her old albums “mine.”

In a letter posted on her website on Friday, Swift announced that she had bought the masters, or original recordings, of her first six albums from Shamrock Capital nearly six years after her former record label, Big Machine Records, sold them to Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings in what she described at the time as her “worst case scenario.”...