Taylor Swift Finally Shakes Off Her ‘Shake It Off’ Copyright Lawsuit Trails

Seam Hall and Nathan Butler have accused Taylor Swift of lifting lines from their song ‘Playas Gon’ Play’ released in 2001. The trials of the lawsuit are set to start next month in January. The legal case has been swirling up since 2017 and there have been various twists and turns about this one release.

They accused Taylor Swift of coining certain lines about “Haters” and “Players” from their track “Playas Gon’ Play”. But it is still unclear whether Sean Hall and Nathan Butler the writers of “Playas Gon’ Play” will be credited on “Shake It Off” or not. Both sides have been questioned several times but they kept their mum on this topic.

First, they filed the case, and then they jointly decided to drop the claims and move ahead afresh. On the 12th of December the lawyers of the writers of 3LW’s song “Playas Gon’ Play” revived the case after it was dropped permanently. The legal battle started in 2017 and in 2018 when both the parties jointly decided to U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald dismissed the case with prejudice, which means they will not be allowed to bring up this case in the future as well. This decision might clear up the ways of the release of “1989 (Taylor’s Version)”.

At one point Swift filed a legal declaration stating the origins of her song “Shake It Off”, denying every copyright allegation against her. Swift wrote, “In writing the lyrics, I drew partly on experiences in my life and, in particular, unrelenting public scrutiny of my personal life, ‘clickbait’ reporting, public manipulation, and other forms of negative personal criticism which I learned I just needed to shake off and focus on my music.”

She claimed that she was improvising the lyrics and by then she haven’t listened to the 3LW’s song “players gonna play”. She wrote, “Prior to writing ‘Shake it Off,’ I had heard the phrases ‘players gonna play’ and ‘haters gonna hate’ uttered countless times to express the idea that one should shrug off negativity.” The hearing is scheduled on 17th January 2023, and hopefully this long and oscillating legal tale will come to an end, after all these time.

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