Taylor Swift wins some support in feud with old label, and lots of silence

Taylor Swift and her former record label traded barbed accusations on Friday about her rights to perform her old songs, winning support from singers like Selena Gomez and Sara Bareilles, but silence from many of the big hitters in the music business.

Swift, 29, one of the best-selling names in pop music, said on social media that her performance as"artist of the decade" at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles on Nov 24 was"a question mark" because her old record label had refused permission for her to sing a medley of her old hits on the show.

Big Machine Label Group, the Nashville, Tennessee-based company that owns the master recordings of Swift's back catalog, hit back on Friday, saying the singer was giving out"false information" and that the label has no right to limit her live performances. Under her contract, Swift is not permitted to re-record material from her period with Big Machine until November 2020.Singer-songwriter Bareilles tweeted that the move by Big Machine was"an outrageous abuse of power and completely unforgivable" while Gomez, a close friend of Swift, said in a social media post that she was"sick and extremely angry".

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