Long-running Shake It Off song-theft case still likely to head to a jury

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The long-running legal battle over the players playing and the haters hating in Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’ could still end up before a jury, with the judge overseeing the case seemingly not yet persuaded to dismiss the case on a matter of law.

Of course he did dismiss it once before, but with the Ninth Circuit appeals court having overturned that decision, Michael Fitzgerald is now much more cautious, despite the Swift side presenting new arguments.Sean Hall and Nathan Butler reckon that Swift’s 2014 hit rips off a song they wrote in 2001 called ‘Playas Gon Play’.

Their song contained the lyric: “The playas gon play/them haters gonna hate”. In her hit, Swift famously sings: “the players gonna play, play, play, play, play/And the haters.