A Los Angeles federal judge has refused one of TaylorSwift's final efforts to avoid a jury trial over accusations that she stole the lyrics to “Shake It Off.”
, the songwriters who wrote “Playas Gon’ Play.” In their song, the line was “playas, they gonna play” and “haters, they gonna hate”; in Swift’s track, she sings, “‘Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.”
Swift’s lawyers have repeatedly moved to end the lawsuit, arguing that lyrics about “players” and “haters” are too commonplace to be covered by copyright law. And last month, Swift herself said she had “never heard” the earlier song she’s accused of copying. But Judge Fitzgerald has so far refused to toss it out, ruling in December that there were “enough objective similarities” that he could not dismiss the case himself. The judge said Swift’s defense would present “a strong closing argument” for an eventual jury trial, but that she would still need to face one.Monday’s order left that ruling in place.
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