Two songwriters have dropped copyright charges against singer Taylor Swift for one of her most popular songs
Taylor Swift has had a lawsuit filed against her dropped by two fellow songwriters.
The pair claimed the Grammy winner stole their lyrics for Swift’s 2014 hit, ‘Shake It Off’.
According to court documents, Sean Hall and Nathan Butler said Swift copied their lyrics in her 2014 track.
However, the pair told a Los Angeles judge they will dismiss their case with prejudice.
A trial in the case had been rescheduled for 17 January but the prejudice ruling means they cannot refile the case.
In the song, Swift sings “the players gonna play, play, play, play, play, and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.”
But in the 2001 song, ‘Playas Gon’ Play,’ Hall and Butler believe Swift’s lyrics were too close to their own.
The song was performed by 3LW, and features the words “playas, they gonna play, and haters, they gonna hate.”
The was was dismissed in 2018 but a U.S. appeals court revived it a year later.
Swift told the court she had never heard of 3LW’s song before writing ‘Shake It Off.’
In court, she said the phrases were commonly used to “express the idea that one can or should shrug off negativity.”
Hall and Butler had requested an amount of money in damages. However, the recent court paper did not specify if a settlement agreement was reached.
