Taylor Swift's win over Apple isn't first victory for an artist

Taylor Swift's big win over Apple isn't a first for the music business.  Swift-- who has 59 million followers on Twitter-- took to Tumblr Sunday to criticize the tech behemoth for not planning to compensate artists during a free trial of Apple Music, its new streaming service. Apple (AAPL) did an about-face and announced it will now pay artists during the three-month Apple Music trial.

A freelance photographer is now calling Swift a hypocrite because of the restrictions on use and sale he says her company puts on photos taken of her performing. Reps for Swift are disputing the claim.

Swift's move against Apple was a success nonetheless. Here's how some other artists have fared when they've gone up against big business:

Taylor Swift Vs. Spotify

The Swift pulled her entire catalog from Spotify over concerns about royalties in November, 2014. The streaming service begged her to come back. She didn’t. Swift explained to Yahoo Music that Spotify felt  "a bit like a grand experiment."  She went on to say, "I just don't agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free."  It wasn't Swift's first brush-up with Spotify. In 2012, she withheld her album Red from the streaming service for months after its release.

Pearl Jam Vs. Ticketmaster

In 1994, the Eddie Vedder-led grunge band felt fans were paying over-the-top service fees to Ticketmaster when purchasing tickets to the band’s concerts. When Ticketmaster wouldn’t lower its fees, the band scrapped its summer tour that year. Members of the band appeared before Congress-- along with members of the group REM-- and the Justice Department launched an investigation into the ticket giant’s monopolistic practices. The next year, the investigation was abruptly dropped. Faced with few options, the band said it would allow Ticketmaster to sell tickets for part of its 1995 tour because Ticketmaster-- which has since merged with LiveNation (LYV)-- had exclusive deals with a number of stadiums in the Northeast.

Metallica Vs. Napster

The heavy metal band sued fledgling Napster over its free file sharing service in 2000. One year later, the two parties reached a settlement where some Metallica music would be offered in return for compensation once Napster launched its subscription service. Rap star Dr. Dre, who shared an attorney with Metallica, also sued Napster and reached a similar deal. Dr. Dre went on to start Beats by Dr. Dre which Apple purchased for $3 billion in May of 2014 and Napster later went bankrupt. The music-sharing platform was eventually acquired by Rhapsody, the Seattle-based streaming service in 2011.

Beatles/Apple Corps Vs. Apple

The long-lived dispute between Apple and the Beatles’ record label, Apple Corps, goes back to 1978 when the company first brought a lawsuit against Apple Computer for trademark infringement. At issue: both the name and symbol used by the then California start-up. A handful of legal battles evolved from there, but the feud was finally settled in 2007. Three years later, the entire Beatles catalog was released on iTunes.

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