The singer has always been an advocate for artists ownership over the years. She's written up eds about how important it is for artists to be compensated for their work when they land on streaming platforms like spotifi. And presumably, if someone wants to licence, shake it off for an upcoming carebear movie, if they go to scooter brawn for the original version, taylor swift will come out and say, they're going to scoot er and not me for my new version, swifty's attack.