"Scott Borchetta never gave Taylor Swift an opportunity to purchase her masters, or the label, outright with a check in the way he is now apparently doing for others," says Don Passman.
Taylor Swift's attorney, Don Passman, has now stepped into the battle between the superstar singer, Big Machine Label Group's founder/CEO Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun, whose Ithaca Holdings agreed to purchase BMLG (including Swift's master recordings) June 30 for more than $300 million.
In a statement on Tuesday (July 2), Passman said, "Scott Borchetta never gave Taylor Swift an opportunity to purchase her masters, or the label, outright with a check in the way he is now apparently doing for others."
After the purchase was announced, Swift quickly took to Tumblr to call Braun's purchase her "worst case scenario," saying she has suffered "incessant, manipulative bullying...at his hands." She added, "For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work. Instead I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and 'earn' one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in."