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Taylor Swift: Songwriters may have a case in ‘Shake It Off’ copyright lawsuit, judge rules
Taylor Swift copied their lyrics for her mega-hit “Shake It Off” might have a case against her.Michael Fitzgerald said that Sean Hall and Nathan Butler “have sufficiently alleged a protectable selection and arrangement or a sequence of creative expression” and Swift’s “use as alleged is similar enough” for the case to go ahead.Hall and Butler have alleged that the chorus to “Shake It Off”, which saw Swift sing that “players gonna play, play, play, play, play” and “haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate”, infringed on the copyright of a track they wrote for the defunct girl group 3LW in 2001.“Playas Gon’ Play” by 3LW featured the lyrics “Playas, they gonna play, and haters, they gonna hate.”Swift’s defence lawyers previously claimed that