Taylor Swift: Judge dismisses Shake It Off copyright lawsuit

A US suit alleging that Taylor Swift stole lyrics for her deed opus Shake It Off has been dismissed by a judge.

Songwriters Sean Hall and Nate Butler had claimed the popular prima lifted lyrics successful her song's chorus from their ain deed Playas Gon' Play. Swift denied being alert of the opus anterior to the lawsuit.

However, tribunal filings amusement a justice dismissed the copyright suit "in its entirety" connected Monday.

Swift said she had drawn from her ain experiences and "commonly utilized phrases and comments" she had heard passim her beingness for the way and that the lyrics had been written "entirely by me".

US commercialized work Variety reported the 2 parties had "reached an agreement" and jointly asked for the lawsuit to beryllium dismissed.

The presumption of the colony were not clear, nevertheless the song's penning credits stay the aforesaid astatine the clip of writing.

Playas Gon' Play, the opus written by Hall and Butler, was released successful 2000 and performed by US miss radical 3LW.

Both that opus and Shake It Off diagnostic variations of the phrases "players gonna play" and "haters gonna hate".

The judge, Michael Fitzgerald, had antecedently rejected the case, saying the lyrics were excessively "banal" to beryllium copyrighted.

In his archetypal ruling, the justice cited 13 earlier songs that featured akin phrases, including Playa Hater by The Notorious B.I.G. and Dreams by Fleetwood Mac.

Hall and Butler appealed against the ruling and a national appeals tribunal reversed his decision, which sent the lawsuit backmost to Judge Fitzgerald.

However, a tribunal filing obtained by the PA quality bureau showed Judge Fitzgerald had dismissed the suit earlier this week.

"Pursuant to the parties' Stipulation, this enactment is hereby dismissed, successful its entirety and with prejudice, Plaintiffs and Defendants to carnivore their respective attorney's fees and costs," the filing read.

Swift, 33, antecedently said she had "never heard" of the 3LW opus anterior to the lawsuit.

"The lyrics to Shake It Off were written wholly by me," she said, successful a sworn declaration besides obtained by PA.

"Shake It Off is astir independency and 'shaking off; antagonistic idiosyncratic disapproval done euphony and dance.

"In penning the lyrics, I drew partially connected experiences successful my beingness and, successful particular, unrelenting nationalist scrutiny of my idiosyncratic life, 'clickbait' reporting, nationalist manipulation, and different forms of antagonistic idiosyncratic disapproval which I learned I conscionable needed to shingle disconnected and absorption connected my music.

"Prior to penning Shake It Off I had heard the phrases 'players gonna play' and 'haters gonna hate' uttered countless times to explicit the thought that 1 tin oregon should motion disconnected negativity."