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Post by Admin on Nov 13, 2015 20:56:33 GMT
Let's face it, you were never, ever, ever going to win this case. According to multiple reports, a California judge just dismissed a lawsuit against Taylor Swift that stated she stole the lyrics "haters gonna hate," and according to this judge, some things you just gotta shake off. Mashable reports R&B singer Jesse Graham filed a suit for $42 million against swift, saying that those lyrics were his. On Nov. 10, U.S Magistrate Judge J. Standish provided a written dismissal to the copyright suit.  "At present, the Court is not saying that Braham can never, ever, ever get his case back in court. But, for now, we have got problems, and the Court is not sure Braham can solve them," Standish wrote. "As currently drafted, the Complaint has a black space – one that requires Braham to do more than write his name." The document continues, "And, upon consideration of the Court's explanation in Part II, Braham may discover that mere pleading Band-Aids will not fix the bullet holes in this case. At least for the moment, Defendants have shaken off this lawsuit." |
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Post by Admin on Oct 30, 2019 19:56:18 GMT
A representative for Taylor Swift brushed aside the revival of a copyright case centered around her 2014 hit “Shake It Off,” saying the pop star “will prevail again.”
In 2017, songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler sued Swift, claiming her 2014 hit, “Shake It Off,” lifted lyrics from their 2001 song for 3LW, “Playas Gon’ Play.” While both songs include variations of the phrases, “playas gonna play” and “haters gonna hate,” a U.S. District court judge dismissed the case in February 2018.
On Monday, however, a three-judge panel from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals revived the suit and sent it back to a U.S. District Court. In a statement, Hall praised the decision, saying, “We are happy the court unanimously sided with us,” and, “This case is giving voice to all of those creatives who can’t afford to stand up and protect their work in the face of well-financed Goliaths.”
In response, a rep for Swift said, “Mr. Hall is incorrect, the court did not unanimously side in their favor, the court sent the case back to the lower court for further determination. 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 use them in a song. We are confident the true writers of ‘Shake It Off’ will prevail again. Their claim is not a crusade for all creatives, it is a crusade for Mr. Hall’s bank account.”
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Post by Admin on Sept 4, 2020 6:24:31 GMT
A lawsuit against Taylor Swift won't be shaken off, according to a Los Angeles federal judge. On Thursday, he refused to dismiss the two songwriters' claim that Taylor Swift used their lyrics from a 2001 song for her smash hit "Shake It Off," court records show. That claim has been ongoing since 2017.
In the suit, songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler alleged that Swift lifted lyrics from the 2001 3LW recording "Playas Gon' Play," which includes the phrase: "Playas, they gonna play, and haters, they gonna hate."
The lyrics in Swift's song, by comparison, read: "Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate."
U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald dismissed the claim in 2018, finding that the disputed lyrics lacked sufficient originality to merit copyright protection. However, an appeals court overturned the Los Angeles federal judge's decision the following year.
In a Wednesday ruling, Fitzgerald refused to toss the case out of court.
The judge wrote that Hall and Butler "have sufficiently alleged a protectable selection and arrangement or a sequence of creative expression," and Swift's "use as alleged is similar enough" to survive the motion to dismiss.
According to the lawsuit, over 9 million copies of the song sold as of the filing date and 6 million copies of Swift's album "1989," and the video for the song had nearly 2.4 billion views on YouTube.
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