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type: entity
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entity_type: person
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name: Taylor Swift
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domain: entertainment
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status: active
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tracked_by: clay
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created: 2026-03-11
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key_metrics:
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tour_revenue: "$4.1B (Eras Tour)"
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trademarks: "400+ across 16 jurisdictions"
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master_recordings_reclaimed: "First six albums (2023-2024)"
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---
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# Taylor Swift
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Artist who established blueprint for creator-owned IP and direct distribution at mega-scale. Reclaimed master recordings through re-recording strategy, bypassed studio intermediaries for concert film distribution, and sparked industry-wide shift toward artist ownership of masters.
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## Timeline
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- **2023-2024** — Reclaimed master recordings for first six albums through re-recording strategy ("Taylor's Version" releases)
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- **2023-2024** — Eras Tour generated $4.1B total revenue, 2x any prior concert tour in history
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- **2024** — Concert film distributed directly through AMC partnership (57/43 split), bypassing major film studios entirely
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- **2025** — WIPO recognized Swift's trademark strategy (400+ trademarks across 16 jurisdictions) as model for artist IP protection
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## Relationship to KB
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Swift's distribution and IP ownership strategies provide concrete evidence for:
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- [[when profits disappear at one layer of a value chain they emerge at an adjacent layer through the conservation of attractive profits]] — captured studio-tier economics by eliminating intermediary
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- [[community-owned-IP-has-structural-advantage-in-human-made-premium-because-provenance-is-inherent-and-legible]] — re-recordings demonstrate provenance as value driver
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- [[media disruption follows two sequential phases as distribution moats fall first and creation moats fall second]] — bypassed distribution while maintaining traditional creation infrastructure |