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  1. December 12, 2022

    Taylor Swift Copyright Accusers Drop 'Shake It Off' Suit

    A California federal court on Monday dismissed a 5-year-old copyright suit claiming Taylor Swift lifted a line from a 2001 R&B song for her chart-topping hit "Shake It Off" after the parties filed a joint stipulation agreeing to end the matter.

  2. October 04, 2022

    Taylor Swift Says 'Shake It Off' Litigants Gave Up Right To Sue

    Taylor Swift's attorney urged a California federal judge Tuesday to toss a suit claiming she lifted a line from a 2001 R&B song for her chart-topping hit "Shake It Off," arguing the songwriters signed away their rights to sue years ago.

  3. September 06, 2022

    Taylor Swift Aims To Block 'Shake It Off' IP Witnesses

    Taylor Swift has urged a California federal judge to stop an attorney and a professor from serving as expert witnesses in a copyright suit asserting the pop artist poached lyrics for the song "Shake it Off," saying the alleged musicologists don't have the claimed expertise.

  4. August 09, 2022

    Taylor Swift Fires Back At Songwriters In 'Shake It Off' IP Fight

    Taylor Swift is trying a new argument against claims she lifted a line from a 2001 R&B hit for her chart-topping song "Shake It Off," claiming that she had never even encountered the other song before the lawsuit in part because she listened "almost exclusively" to country music growing up.

  5. December 09, 2021

    Taylor Swift Loses Bid For Quick Win In 'Shake It Off' Fight

    A California federal judge refused on Thursday to ax a copyright battle over Taylor Swift's hit single "Shake It Off," finding that the singer hadn't shown that there aren't any genuine issues of triable fact and teeing up the four-year-long dispute to head to a jury trial.

  6. September 28, 2021

    Judge Says 'Shake It Off' Fight Is Likely Headed To A Jury

    A California federal judge told lawyers for Taylor Swift at a Tuesday hearing that he was having a hard time seeing why a four-year copyright fight over the lyrics in her hit single "Shake It Off" should not be decided by a jury, since the question over ownership turns on how the lyrics are read, not the law.

  7. September 23, 2021

    IP Forecast: Taylor Swift Seeks To Shake Off Copyright Case

    Taylor Swift's lawyers will argue next week in a California federal court that lyrics from her 2014 hit "Shake It Off" about "players" and "haters" are well within the public domain and don't rip off an R&B song from 2001. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.

  8. July 20, 2021

    Taylor Swift Says 'Shake It Off' Didn't Copy 'Players,' 'Haters'

    Taylor Swift is urging a California federal judge to once and for all toss a lawsuit accusing her of ripping off lyrics for her hit "Shake It Off," arguing that the public domain phrases "players gonna play" and "haters gonna hate" are not copyrightable.

  9. September 02, 2020

    Taylor Swift Loses Bid To Escape 'Shake It Off' Lyrics Case

    A year after being overturned by the Ninth Circuit, a California federal judge on Wednesday refused to toss out a lawsuit accusing Taylor Swift of ripping off lyrics for "Shake It Off," sending the case toward more litigation and an eventual trial.

  10. August 26, 2020

    Taylor Swift Copyright Accusers Say 'Empire' Doesn't Matter

    Taylor Swift thinks a Ninth Circuit ruling last week on the show "Empire" could help her defeat copyright infringement accusations over "Shake It Off," but the songwriters who are suing her say it should have "no effect" on their case.

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