[Audio] When Does a Beat Make You a Co-Writer? — No Infringement Intended Podcast

In this episode of No Infringement Intended, Austin Padgett and Rusty Close wind up in Auckland and on TikTok, tracing how a teenage producer's "Laxed (Siren Beat)" became Jason Derulo's global hit "Savage Love." Along the way, they break down when contributing a beat (or a chorus fragment) makes you a songwriter rather than just a producer, how "toplining" works in modern pop, and why crediting someone after the fact is very different from clearing rights before a track blows up. Instead of... By: Troutman Pepper Locke