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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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trademark_count: "400+ across 16 jurisdictions"
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eras_tour_revenue: "$4.1B"
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tour_vs_recorded_music_ratio: "7x"
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---
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# Taylor Swift
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Taylor Swift is a recording artist whose IP ownership and distribution strategies represent a structural model for creator-owned entertainment economics. Her re-recording of legacy catalog albums (2023-2024) to reclaim master ownership and direct theater distribution deal with AMC (bypassing film studio intermediaries) demonstrate creator capture of value chain layers traditionally controlled by labels and studios.
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## Timeline
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- **2023-2024** — Re-recorded first six albums to reclaim master recording ownership
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- **2023-2024** — Registered 400+ trademarks across 16 jurisdictions for IP protection
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- **2023-2024** — Eras Tour generated $4.1B total revenue (2x any prior concert tour; 7x recorded music revenue)
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- **2023-2024** — Concert film distributed directly through AMC partnership (57/43 revenue split), bypassing major film studios
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- **2025** — WIPO recognized Swift's trademark strategy as model for artist IP protection
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## Relationship to KB
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- [[direct-theater-distribution-bypasses-studio-intermediaries-when-creators-control-sufficient-audience-scale]] — AMC concert film deal as distribution bypass
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- [[re-recordings-as-ip-reclamation-mechanism-refresh-legacy-catalog-control-and-stimulate-streaming-rebuy]] — catalog re-recording strategy
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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]] — profit migration from labels/studios to creator
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- [[community-owned-IP-has-structural-advantage-in-human-made-premium-because-provenance-is-inherent-and-legible]] — fan community (Swifties) as distribution and demand mechanism |