Though the lawsuit was originally dismissed in 2018, a successful appeal by the plaintiffs means the pop star will face a jury trial
Taylor Swift will face a jury trial over accusations that she plagiarised lyrics for her 2014 hit Shake It Off from another song.
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A US judge refused Swift’s request for the case khổng lồ be dismissed on the grounds that a jury could find that the tuy vậy copied Playas Gon’ Play, a tuy nhiên released by girl group 3LW in 2001. Both songs feature variations on the lines “players gonna play” và “haters gonna hate”.
Reached by the Guardian, representatives for Swift declined khổng lồ comment.
Taylor Swift: Shake It Off – video
But Playas Gon’ Play songwriters Sean Hall & Nathan Butler appealed the ruling, seeking a jury trial và unspecified damages, & a federal court reversed the decision in October 2019.
In response, a representative for Swift said: “These men are not the originators, or creators, of the common phrases ‘players’ or ‘haters’ or combinations of them. They did not invent these common phrases nor are they the first to lớn use them in a song.”
They expressed their confidence that the “true writers of Shake It Off” – namely Swift và co-producers Max Martin và Shellback – “will prevail again.
Fitzgerald wrote: “Even though there are some noticeable differences between the works, there are also significant similarities in word usage và sequence/structure,” adding that “the court cannot presently determine that no reasonable juror could find substantial similarity of lyrical phrasing, word arrangement, or poetic structure between the two works”.
He said experts put forward by Swift made “persuasive arguments” but that it wasn’t enough for her lớn escape the case.
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3LW: Playas Gon’ Play – video
Lawyers for Hall and Butler said that the court “did the right thing”.
“Our clients are finally moving closer khổng lồ the justice they so richly deserve,” said lawyer Marina Bogorad. “The opinion … is especially gratifying to lớn them because it reinforces the idea that their creativity & unique expression cannot be misappropriated without any retribution.”
3LW’s song charted at No 21 in the UK & No 81 in the US. Swift’s Shake It Off reached No 2 in the UK và No 1 in the US and is the biggest selling single of her career.
And these are not unfamiliar scenarios for Swift on either side of the divide. She gave British pop band Right Said Fred a writing credit on her 2017 single Look What You Made Me Do, which interpolated the melody of their 1992 tuy nhiên I’m Too Sexy.
This year, she received a co-writing credit on teenage pop star Olivia Rodrigo’s tuy vậy Deja Vu in acknowledgment of its similarities to lớn her 2019 tuy nhiên Cruel Summer, written with Jack Antonoff and St Vincent AKA Annie Clark.
In 2016, she revealed that she was a co-writer of This Is What You Came For, a tuy vậy performed by Rihanna & written by Swift’s ex-boyfriend, Calvin Harris. She was previously credited under a pseudonym, Nils Sjöberg.
Spotify recently named Swift the second most-streamed musician in the world in 2021. She was pipped khổng lồ the đứng top spot by Puerto Rican star Bad Bunny.
