Heres a timeline of everything that happened. · scooter braun is making headlines after taylor swift reacted to him purchasing ownership of her former label , big machine label group, and her master recordings. · taylor swift bought the masters for her first six albums without any help from scooter braun , who previously held the rights before selling them to shamrock capital, per a source close to. · braun spent an estimated $ 300 million in 2019 to buy the master recordings of taylor swift , fearless, speak now, red, 1989, and reputation from big machine label group and record. · taylor swift has regained control of her music catalog six years after a controversy surrounding her masters and retired music manager scooter braun. The deal included taylor swift ’ s master recordings of her first six. · scooter braun , left, purchased big machine label group from scott borchetta, right, for $ 300 million in 2019. Taylor swift masters dispute in 2005, 15-year-old taylor swift (left) signed a record deal with big machine records that gave the label ownership of the masters of her first six studio albums. · taylor swift and scooter braun s feud kicked off after he acquired her masters. Scooter braun (right)s 2019 purchase of big machine included those masters, which he sold to shamrock holdings the following year.