Grammy award-winning singer, Taylor Swift and her legal team have hit back in a copyright lawsuit in which the singer/songwriter is accused of stealing lyrics of her 2014 hit song, ‘Shake It Off.’
Taylor Swift Files Motion In Copyright Lawsuit
Denying the copyright infringement, the singer filed the documents in a federal court on August eight claiming she had never heard the song she is accused of plagiarizing.
Just so you know Swift was hit with plagiarism charges in 2017 by songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, who wrote 3LW’s 2000 song ‘Playas Gon’ Play,’ thereby accusing Taylor Swift of using their words.
Swift claimed that she was just eleven when ‘Playas Gon’ Play’ was released and that she was not allowed to watch MTV’s ‘Total Request Live’ music video countdown show until she was about thirteen years old.
Her mother Andrea Swift also filed an accompanying statement in which she said that she kept a close watch over the media her daughter was exposed to at home.
Taylor Swift’s lawyer claimed in a motion filed with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California that Hall and Butler were merely trying to cash in on the success of Swift’s song.
The basis of their suit was that ‘Playas Gon’ Play,’ like ‘Shake it Off’ includes versions of the phrases “hater’s gonna hate” and “player’s gonna play.”
If you would recall, Butler and Hall’s suit was initially dismissed in 2018 stating that the phrases in question were not original enough to warrant copyright protection, but a panel of federal judges revived the suit a year later, stating it was dropped prematurely.
A federal judge however ruled at the end of 2021 that the suit would go to trial.
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