Taylor Swift punches again in copyright lawsuit, claims she wrote hit ‘Shake It Off’ herself

Taylor Swift and her authorized workforce hit again in a copyright lawsuit wherein the singer-songwriter is accused of stealing lyrics for her hit track, “Shake It Off.”

Sean Corridor and Nathan Butler, who wrote 3LW’s 2000 track “Playas Gon’ Play,” are accusing the celebrity of utilizing their phrases. A Monday court docket submitting insisted that Swift wrote 2014’s “Shake It Off” by herself, whereas her lawyer accused Corridor and Butler of attempting to money in on the track’s astronomical success. 

“The lyrics to Shake It Off had been written solely by me,” Swift mentioned in a declaration, as reported by The Guardian. “Till studying about Plaintiffs’ declare in 2017, I had by no means heard the track Playas Gon’ Play and had by no means heard of that track or the group 3LW.”

Swift claimed that she was simply 11 when “Playas Gon’ Play,” was launched, and that she was not allowed to observe MTV’s “Whole Request Stay” music video countdown present till she was “about 13 years outdated.” Backing this up, Swift’s mom Andrea Swift filed an accompanying assertion wherein she mentioned that she stored a shut watch over the media her daughter was uncovered to at dwelling.

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Swift’s lawyer claimed in a movement filed in federal court docket that Corridor and Butler had been merely attempting to money in on the success of Swift’s track.

“It’s, sadly, commonplace for successful track to be met by litigants hoping for a windfall based mostly on tenuous claims that their very own track was copied. However even towards that background, Plaintiffs’ declare stands proud as notably baseless,” the movement mentioned.

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 14: Taylor Swift attends the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards at Los Angeles Conference Middle on March 14, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.
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Swift mentioned that she wrote the track utilizing “experiences in my life and, specifically, unrelenting public scrutiny of my private life, ‘clickbait’ reporting, public manipulation, and different types of detrimental private criticism which I discovered I simply wanted to shake off and deal with my music.”

The nation and pop celebrity mentioned she included “generally used phrases and feedback heard,” which included “gamers gonna play” and “haters gonna hate.” These two phrases are rhymed with one another within the choruses of each songs. The lawsuit was first filed in 2017, however a choose dismissed it after Swift argued that the phrases in query weren’t authentic sufficient to warrant copyright safety. 

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The Ninth Circuit Courtroom of Appeals then reversed, reviving the declare and a subsequent movement to dismiss failed when the court docket dominated that Corridor and Butler “sufficiently alleged a protectable choice and association or a sequence of inventive expression.”