Songwriting duo Sean Hall and Nathan Butler had accused Taylor Swift of plagiarism regarding her song Shake It Off for their lyrics of their song Playas Gon’ Play, written for the US girl group 3LW as the lyrics include, “Playas, they gonna play / And haters, they gonna hate.” Whereas the chorus to Swift’s single features the lines, “Cause the players gonna play, play, play / And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.”
However a California judge Michael Fitzgerald has dismissed the copyright lawsuit filed against Taylor Swift on the basis of ingenuity of their claims as well as either artist’s lyrics. He said, “By 2001, American popular culture was heavily steeped in the concepts of players, haters and player-haters. The concept of actors acting in accordance with their essential nature is not at all creative; it is banal. The alleged infringed lyrics are short phrases that lack the modicum of originality and creativity required for copyright protection.”
