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Evidently Taylor Swift doesn’t want there to be any bad blood between her 1989 World Tour and photographers. After an outpouring of internet outrage over her tour’s restrictive photo contract, Swift’s team has apparently relented.
Writing for Poytner, Benjamin Mullin notes that Swift’s team has removed elements that photographers had found objectionable:
According to a source who has seen the revised contract, Swift’s representatives are no longer empowered to forcibly remove images from the cameras of photojournalists. In addition, a stricture preventing photojournalists from using images taken at Swift’s concerts more than once has been loosened, allowing for some negotiation. And Swift’s representatives have agreed to credit photojournalists when the artist uses their photos.
Mashable has gotten a hold of the new contract and republished it here.
The changes were spurred by UK concert photographer Jason Sheldon and later by Mickey Osterreicher, general counsel for the National Press Photographer’s Association, who has been speaking out against Swift’s contract since Sheldon’s open letter to Swift went viral.
Swift is not the only high-profile musician under fire for restrictive contracts.
The Washington City Paper refused to send a photographer to the Foo Fighters’s concert after writing that the Foo’s contract “sucked.” Instead, they commissioned a cartoonist to draw the band during the show. A Quebec paper, Le Soleil, followed suit.
Related: One Simple Way to Kill Restrictive Concert Photography Contracts
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