A judge ruled in early December that the copyright suit would go to trial.
Taylor Swift is still trying to shake off a copyright lawsuit over her 2014 hit “Shake It Off.”
After a federal judge ruled that a copyright infringement case against the singer would go to trial in early December, Swift’s lawyers have again asked him to dismiss the case in a new motion, requesting that U.S. District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald reconsider his decision. The lawsuit alleges that Swift copied lyrics from the 2000 song “Playas Gon’ Play,” recorded by the girl group 3LW, for “Shake It Off.”
In court documents filed Dec. 23, Swift’s attorneys argue that allowing the case to proceed would represent an “unprecedented” decision, noting that the judge’s order “does something that, as far [as] Defendants are aware, no other court has done, namely finding a potentially valid infringement claim in the use of two short public domain phrases along with allegedly similar ideas and concepts. Defendants respectfully submit that the ruling should be revisited.”
The judge had ruled in early December that the case would go to trial citing that even though Swift’s experts had made “persuasive arguments,” it was not enough to stop the case from going to trial.
