According to court documents obtained by Page Six, Swift’s attorneys argue that the “Shake It Off” lawsuit is “unprecedented” and “cheats the public domain.”
over allegations that she stole the lyrics to “Shake It Off” from 3LW’s “Playas Gon’ Play.”
Anderson argued in court docs that the lyrics are “unprotected” and in the public domain. “To permit that is unprecedented and cheats the public domain,” he added.accused Swift, 31, of stealing the lyrics Swift’s attorneys further argued in the new court docs that Fitzgerald overlooked copyright law’s extrinsic test — where judges filter the material that isn’t covered by copyrights.
“Doing so here leaves only this similarity: both works use versions of two short public domain phrases — ‘players gonna play’ and ‘haters gonna hate’ — that are free for everyone to use, and two other but different tautologies that plaintiffs claim share the same underlying general idea or concept.
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