Emma Roth
A years-long copyright lawsuit over Taylor Swift’s 2014 hit “Shake It Off” has come to a close.
In a dispute with two songwriters, Swift argued she’d never heard the song “Playas Gon’ Play” by 3LW, cited in 2015 by a judge dismissing another claim against “Shake It Off” over the same lyrics.
With a jury trial set to start on January 17th, Variety reports the parties settled and the credits of the song unchanged.
Compare that to Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams paying Marvin Gaye’s family $7.3 million for “Blurred Lines.” That result, and this episode of Decoder, shows why artists like Olivia Rodrigo have opted to hand out credits instead of fighting in court.
