Judge again refuses to dismiss Shake It Off song-theft lawsuit against Taylor Swift

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A US judge has again declined to dismiss the long-running ‘Shake It Off’ song theft lawsuit, meaning that the songwriters who allege that Taylor Swift’s 2014 hit rips off a song they wrote in 2001 should now be able to have their case presented to a jury.This particular song-theft dispute has already been on quite the journey.

Sean Hall and Nathan Butler first went legal in 2017, claiming that ‘Shake It Off’ rips off their 2001 song ‘Playas Gon Play’.

That track contained the lyric: “The playas gon play/them haters gonna hate”. And in her hit, Swift famously sings: “the players gonna play, play, play, play, play/And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate”.The following year judge Michael Fitzgerald dismissed Hall and Butler’s.