. >> taylor's announcement comes nearly two months after music mogul scooter braun purchased her formerorted $300 million. taylor said the deal, quote, stripped me of my life's work. ♪ wildest dreams oh >> in a pre-taped interview airing this weekend on cbs this weekend, taylor says she found out about the deal when it was online. >> this is taylor's revenge in all its glory. >> variety's jem aswad says most of taylor's fans will follow her to whichever versions of the songs she asks them to. >> she's hitting at the value of the asset scooter braun just bought and enlisting public sirchthy. scooter be big machine will try to block this in whatever way they can. >> taylor's new album "lover" drops tomorrow. the song lyrics had many wondering if she and boyfriend joe alwyn are secretly engaged. ♪ my heart's been borrowed and yours has been blue ♪ >> "gma" didn't ask about that, but taylor did make a major vma announcement ahead of monday's show. >> i'm opening the show, so that's exciting. >> we are pretty excited too. ♪ you need to calm down >> the last time taylor hit the vma stage was

. >> which brings us to scooter braun. >> yeah. >> reporter: earlier this summer, scooter braun, a talentious relationship, acquired the rights to her previous recordings, her masters, when his company bought scott borchetta's big machine label for a reported $300 million. borchetta who worked with swift for years said those close to her, including her dad who was an investor, knew about the deal in advance and swift had previously been offered the option to buy her own masters. she remembers it differently. >> so you didn't see it coming? >> no. >> so how did you find out? >> i found out when it was online. like when it hit the news. >> nobody in your inner circle -- >> nobody knew. >> and you didn't smell it? >> no. >> i knew he would sell my music. i knew he would do that. i couldn't believe who he sold it to because we've had endless conversations about scooter braun. and he has 300 million reasons to conveniently forget those conversations. >> now could you rerecord? >> oh, yeah. >> might you do that? >> oh, yeah. >> that's a plan? >> oh, yeah, absolutely. >> scooter braun may not ag

scooter braun was representing kanye at the time and then appeared with him in this picture, which taylornting her. swift, referring to this photo of braun, west and bieber that the "sorry" singer posted back in 2016 with the caption "taylor swift what up." >> bieber apologizing to swift for that post, writing in part, "it was my caption and post" and that braun "told me not to joke like that." sources close to braun say no bullying happened. swift's emotional message after the sale spotlighting the debate about whether or not artists should own the rights to their music. >> in a record deal it's actually standard for the record label to own the master recording because the company is the one putting up the money for that music to be recorded and promoted so it's actually the exception when the artist owns the recordings and then licenses them to the label. but legends like prince have argued that the business model is wrong. back in the '90s the "kiss" singer adamantly fought his label for control of his music. at times, even writing "slave" on the side of his face. telling "rolling ston

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well, they're owned by music mogul scooter braun.e the face of the music industry joining us is bill wordy of syracuse university. bill, when i first heard this, my confusion was as to whether she's trying to make the songs exactly the same and kind of supplant the existence or just going to be difference versions and hope people forget about the old ones >> i think different versions. taylor shows ability to be problem solving throughout the career and if she does wind up recording new versions they wind up being different takes on the versions that fans will snap up for sure, will listen to, for sure the fans as loyal as anyone's in the business believe me, my twitter feed after writing that column for "billboard" is showing that. i don't see them replacing the original versions. keep in mind, some of the huge hits she wrote when she was like a freshman in high school and now a 30-year-old worldly woman. she sings differently. she has lost the sort of adorable country twang. >> i joke she's the villain of her earlier songs. >> you

has there been any response from scooter braun from this announcement by taylor?oes not get to buy or acquire the back catalogue and this is a big music industry feedback has been quite entertaining for the likes of me. she is releasing an album as sheep makes this announcement as well. it could be for publicity purposes but we don't know. the album presold over 1 purposes but we don't know. the album presold over1 million records worldwide so already it is going to be circulated platinum before it has been released. thank you very much. and thank you for spending some time with us and stay with the bbc. hello there. thursday's weather brought some wet weather across parts of northern england, northern ireland, southern scotland with some bursts of rain. but the weather will get drier over the next few days, and for many of us, it will get quite a bit hotter, as well. looking at the weather picture through friday, we have this weather front that continues to edge its way northwards across scotland. that will be bringing still some rain too many western areas of sc

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expressed dismay that her record label sold the rights to many of her albums to record executive scooter braunsed him of bullying her. she called losing her music's publishing rights to braun who manages justin bieber and ariana grande a among other stars her quote worst case scenario. kron 4 news at 9 that our prime time coverage continues at the top of the hour come orn ken wayne are here. >>for news at 10 making a grand and thank you both so much next at 10 o'clock some tense moments for passengers who are flying from oakland to honolulu. >>nearly 200 people had to get off their plane in about 30 seconds today was smoke started to fill the cabin. we're hearing from those passengers of the plane tonight and seeing video from inside the plane. so rights activist or swear to it gets arrested during a demonstration in fresno cameras were rolling as police escorted her out. >>her message shortly after being released and and was hot hot and humid today. >>our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow looks ahead to the weather in the bay this weekend. >>don't go away our 3 of kron 4 news in primetime s

of the surprise purchase of her original master recordings for $300 million by record executive scooter braunlt name. swift just delivered a special surprise to nearly 200 of her superfans. her father and management team hand delivered 30 pizzas and water to those fans who are camping out. outside new york's central park, that's where they're camping out, i stopped in the middle of a sentence, eagerly awaiting her concert this morning on "good morning america." janai won't be there, she'll be in times square. >> i won't be there, but maybe trevor you can get some contacts to get you down there, meet t-swift, taylor, we're excited. >>> when we come back, the fresh controversy swirling around "dancing with the stars." >>> and the bombshell dropped by lionsgate studios. lionsgate studios. sleep. our liquid has a unique botanical blend, while an optimal melatonin level means no next day grogginess. zzzquil pure zzzs. naturally superior sleep. ♪ skinny just gimme the skinny >>> time now for "the skinny" starting with the moment we have all been waiting for. >> each and every one of us. after an un

as i said previously on the programme with her feud with scooter braun, she has a very loyalfan base.her message. to help us through the people who didn't see the video last night, how did she illustrate what she wanted to achieve?” night, how did she illustrate what she wanted to achieve? i think first of all in the speech, it is very clear, it is not subtle by any means, it is a very clear indication advertising, so to speak, her petition. of course the video itself features loads of lgbt motifs, it has been hailed as a theme for the lg btq has been hailed as a theme for the lgbtq community. has been hailed as a theme for the lg btq community. you has been hailed as a theme for the lgbtq community. you saw her all onstage before, very bright and energetic, full of rainbow coloured multicoloured motives, the message could not be clearer. she did top of her watch. she tapped her watch! no reaction that we've seen so far of donald trump retreating so far. which is very surprising because backin which is very surprising because back in the day when meryl streep made a comment at the gol

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scooter braun, the high-profile manager who swift alleges publicly bullied her, calling it my worst-caseine records which owns so many of swift's deeply personal recordings for $300 million. in a passionate and unfiltered tumblr post swift writes, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it. sources close to braun say no bullying happened. swift's emotional message spotlighting the debate whether or not artists should own the rights to their music. >> in a record deal, it's actually standard for the record label to own the master recordings. it is actually the exception when the artist owns the recordings and then licenses them to the label. >> reporter: but legends like prince have argued that the business model is wrong. back in the '90s the "kiss" singer adamantly fought his label for control of his music, at times even writing "slave" on the side of his face, telling "rolling stone," if you don't own your masters, your master owns you. >> i think every lyric on the song "lover," i'm really proud of that song. that sg [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >

. ♪ because baby now we got bad blood ♪ >> reporter: one man in particular, scooter braun who has managede west and justin bieber. braun snapping up the rights to swift's master recordings from her old label in a $300 million deal back in june. her new versions would seek to supplant the ones braun controls. >> i think that artists deserve to own their work. i just feel very passionately about that. >> reporter: swift's forceful advocacy has made that a hot topic once more. in the '90s, prince stopped using his name, and wrote slave on his face during a dispute with his record label. 26 years later it's taylor swift ready and eager in every way to own it. ♪ look what you made me do >> reporter: not unheard of for artists to re-record their hits, but lots of new music for fans to listen to. >> excited about that. >> i'm downloading it all to go run to it. >> she found her voice in a lot of different ways. >> she has. >>> following a lot of other stories including that close call in a hot car. the mother is now defending herself after she left her 5-month-old behind. the rescue was caught o

cheryl: the singer told cbs news she wants to re-track because the manager, scooter braun, bought theshe plans to re-record music from her first six albums. she would then own the rights to these new versions. pretty smart little girl there. and finally, rock solid paycheck, the highest paid actor of 2019 is dwayne johnson. also known as the rock. a according to the forbes' list of top paid actors, he took in $89.4 million between june 2018 and two months ago. chris hemsworth came in second, followed by robert downy junior, acshay kumar and jackie chan. maria.>>. maria: i never watch any of those. >> doesn't that say something. maria: it's me. i'm sorry. >> jackie chan. i mean -- i'm sorry, what was he in i? i don't even know. >> i don't know. maria: i want to point out, the markets have completely reversed and are showing a pretty good gain. we've got european indices also up as well as u.s. indices, now at the highs of the morning, we started the day off negative and now we're looking at dow futures up 40 points, s&p up 4, nasdaq up 7. fq100 is picking up speed, the ecb minutes are