Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Taylor Swift asks for expert witnesses to be dropped from upcoming Shake It Off trial due to lack of expertise
completemusicupdate.comAs the song theft legal battle over Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’ continues to go through the motions, her legal team are keen to block two of the plaintiffs’ expert witnesses and limit the testimony of a third.
The experts, you see, lack expertise. Or so say Team Swift.This all relates to the US lawsuit being pursued by songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, who reckon Swift’s 2014 hit rips off their 2001 song ‘Playas Gon Play’.
The latter song, recorded by 3LW, includes the lyric “the playas gon play/them haters gonna hate”, while ‘Shake It Off’ famously includes the line “the players gonna play, play, play, play, play/and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate”.The Swift side initially got the lawsuit dismissed on the basis lyrics about players playing and haters hating were too generic to be protected by copyright in isolation.
But the litigation was reinstated by the Ninth Circuit appeals court, and subsequent efforts to get it dismissed a second time – mainly based on the same arguments as before – have been unsuccessful.With the whole matter now heading to trial, Swift’s lawyers have submitted new court papers taking issue with some of the expert witnesses that Hall and Butler’s team intend to call.
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