Taylor Swift Shows Us Why We Need to Shake Off Intellectual Property

Taking on Taylor Swift," a recent documentary on CNN, tells the story of Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, a pair of songwriters for the early 2000s hip-hop group 3LW. Hall and Butler sued Taylor Swift in 2021 over Swift's hit song Shake It Off" for allegedly violating their copyright for the 3LW song Playas Gon' Play."

Here's why the lawsuit was baseless.