{"id":1284,"date":"2015-11-20T09:12:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/jsel\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2023-07-25T12:17:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T16:17:30","slug":"taylor-swift-shakes-off-plagiarism-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/jsel\/2015\/11\/taylor-swift-shakes-off-plagiarism-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift &#8220;Shakes Off&#8221; Plagiarism Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"webkit-fake-url:\/\/C0DC9802-39B8-4910-AAAC-21B425FCD497\/Elegant-Taylor-Swift-2015.jpg\" alt=\"Elegant-Taylor-Swift-2015.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Braham, an amateur musician, filed a copyright infringement suit in federal court in California against international pop star Taylor Swift. His complaint alleged that lyrics from Swift&#8217;s chart-topping single &#8220;Shake It Off&#8221; were 92% plagiarized from a song he wrote in 2013, \u201cHaters Gonna Hate.\u201d He specifically claimed Swift\u2019s lyric, &#8220;the players gonna play, play, play, play, play. And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate,&#8221; came from his song\u2019s lyric, &#8220;Haters gone hate, playas gone play.&#8221; Unfortunately for Braham, on November 12, the District Court Judge, citing reasons of factual insufficiency, dismissed the complaint for failure to state a claim for which relief could be granted. Drawing from another well-known Swift lyric, the Judge wrote in her dismissal, &#8220;As currently drafted, the Complaint has a blank space &#8211; one that requires Braham to do more than write his name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/11\/12\/us\/taylor-swift-copyright-lawsuit-dismissed\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Jesse Braham, an amateur musician, filed a copyright infringement suit in federal court in California against international pop star Taylor Swift. His complaint alleged that lyrics from Swift&#8217;s chart-topping single &#8220;Shake It Off&#8221; were 92% plagiarized from a song he wrote in 2013, \u201cHaters Gonna Hate.\u201d He specifically claimed Swift\u2019s lyric, &#8220;the players gonna 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