Is The 'I Knew You Were Trouble' Singer Taylor Swift & Spotify Back In Business Again?

Is singer Taylor Swift and Spotify back in business with one another again? It seems like the recording artists' copyrights has been infringed on when the singers hit song, "I Knew You Were Trouble" was uploaded onto the streaming music site under the name of rock group, Lostprophets recently without Swift's concent, says Complex magazine. The album artwork that was displayed in conjuction with the unauthorized upload dipicted the Canadian cartoon Scaredy Squirrel, along with the Lostprophets logo. The music has been featured for over a month.

According to The Guardian, the playcount of "I Knew You Were Trouble" was at 39,681,189 as of Monday and was credited and "correctly attributed to Taylor Swift." Last year, in a move to protest the unfair payments from music downloads, the pop star pulled all of her music from the service, citing the company does not value her works of art.

She wrote an essay in the Wall Street Journal saying in part, "Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It's my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album's price point is. I hope they don't underestimate themselves or undervalue their art."

 
Apparently, the biggest concern for the 24-year old singer and songwriter is that she is properly compensated for her art. Time reported that Scott Borchetta, the CEO Taylor's independent label Big Machine says that domestically the singer received under $500,000 in a 12-month period last year. A Spotify spokesperson rebutted and says that the stars dollar figure was considerably more by stating, "over the past 12 months globally was $2 miliion."

Now that Spotify is aware of the mysterious music add, they have taken immediate action by removing the track and are investigating the matter. "We take the integrity of our catalogue very seriously, and will immediately remove any content that is found to be incorrectly licensed or attributed to the incorrect artist or composer," says a spokeperson for the company.

The only Taylor Swift song that has permission to remain on Spotify is from The Hunger Games soundtrack entitled "Safe & Sound."