New updates have arrived in the case of Taylor Swift and her lawsuit over ‘Shake It Off.’
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Mere weeks after the singer was ordered to stand trial over copyright infringement over the 3LW song ‘Playas Bon’ Play,’ she is now asking the court to throw out the ruling.
According to Rolling Stone, Swift filed a motion on December 23, asking Judge Michael Fitzgerald to reconsider his decision.
The new motion states:
“Both works use versions of two short public domain phrases — ‘players gonna play’ and ‘haters gonna hate’— that are free for everyone to use.”
“The presence of versions of the two short public domain statements and two other tautologies in both songs simply does not satisfy the extrinsic test. Otherwise, plaintiffs could sue everyone who writes, sings, or publicly says ‘players gonna play’ and ‘haters gonna hate’ alone with other tautologies. To permit that is unprecedented and cheats the public domain”
The lawyer for Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, the pair of songwriters who wrote 3LW’s track, said:
“We feel there is no basis for reconsideration, and that this is just a music mogul and her machine trying to deny our client justice by outspending a fellow lower-income artist. Totally uncool among artists.”
The latest update arrives after Fitzgerald said there were “enough objective similarities” between the two tracks for the case to move forward.