Taylor Swift has shaken off a copyright lawsuit alleging that she copied lyrics in her lead single from her '1989' album, paving the way for her to finish re-recording her first six studio albums.
alleging that she copied lyrics in the lead single from her"1989" album, paving the way for her to finish re-recording her first six studio albums.
Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, who wrote the 2001 song “Playas Gon' Play” by the group 3LW, filed the complaint against Swift in 2017. They alleged that Swift copied the lyrics in her 2014 song"Shake It Off," which spent four weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart,U.S. District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald signed the order to dismiss the suit Monday"pursuant to the parties’ Stipulation," according to a new court filing Monday.
Swift was denied a request to dismiss the lawsuit last December after her attorney argued that the two songs used the same public domain phrases —"players gonna play" and"haters gonna hate." In August, Swift wrote in a declaration to the court that she had never heard the 3LW song as a child and insisted that she wrote the lyrics to"Shake It Off" herself."I recall hearing phrases about players play and haters hate stated together by other children while attending school in Wyomissing Hills, and in high school in Hendersonville,” Swift wrote in the August filing.
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