Taylor Swift is scheduled to face a jury trial for allegedly copying lyrics for her single ‘Shake It Off’ from two composers.
Michael W Fitzgerald, a US district court, has ordered that the Folklore singer will face a jury trial amid accusations that she plagiarised the lyric of her 2014 hit Shake It Off.
Swift’s plea to dismiss the case was also dismissed by Judge Fitzgerald on Thursday. “Even if there are some notable variations between the works, there are also considerable similarities in word usage and sequence/structure,” the judge observed, according to Billboard.
The chorus of Shake If Off infringed on the copyright of a single Sean Hall and Nathan Butler wrote for the 3LW in 2001, according to songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler.
Despite the fact that a district judge dismissed Hall and Butler’s claim in February 2018, the case was revived by a federal appeals court, which found that a jury rather than a single individual should issue a decision.
Shake It Off, by Taylor Swift, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 list. Swift’s album 1989 has this song as the lead single.
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