Even as Taylor is being hailed for fighting for artists' rights, a large section of the creative class sees the singer as a hypocrite.

During the last weekend, the "Shake It Off" singer posted a note on her Tumblr account criticising Apple Inc. for not paying the artists as well as rightsholders for their music that would be streamed on Apple Music during the three-month free trial to subscribers from June 30. While her stand earned her accolades from music advocates and forced Apple Music to change their payment policy, it infuriated many music photographers.

According to IB Times, for quite some time, music photographers have bee complaining that Swift as well as her father's production company Firefly Entertainment has forced photographers to accept restrictive and arduous terms for accessing her shows, together with passing on their rights perpetually.

A British photographer named Jason Sheldon published an open letter addressed to Swift during the weekend. He wrote, "She's taken a stand against Apple for doing the same thing she's doing to us," adding, "It takes bread off our table."

Normally, photographers are allowed to license or resell their work over and over after the first use. But all the photographs taken at any Taylor Swift show become her property at the end of the show. Ironically, photographers who took the snaps have no claim to them. 

Swift has been allegedly pressurizing photographers to sign these contracts, which have at times been dubbed as rights grabbing agreements, since 2011. The contract works like this. After a photographer attending a Taylor Swift show shoots the singer and is paid by the magazine or website that secured a press pass for the photographer, the singer and her manager become the owners of those photographs, thereby preventing the photographers from licensing or reselling them later.

In a number of instances, these agreements even check photographers from exhibiting those shots in materials they use to get jobs in the future.

According to the report, Swift is not the only artist who is practicing this, she is definitely the first person to stand up and say that artists justify the right to retain some control over their intellectual property and monetize it in a fair manner.

According to the head attorney at LawTog, Rachel Brenke, "These types of provisions are a 'David and Goliath' type of proposition." She added, "There's a double standard." 

Meanwhile, photographers across the world have started attacking the alleged hypocrisy of Swift's position soon after her post on Tumblr started making the rounds.