{"id":22946,"date":"2022-03-02T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=22946"},"modified":"2023-02-15T15:14:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T23:14:46","slug":"taylor-swift-wins-legal-battle-over-shake-it-off-plagiarism-accusation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/taylor-swift-wins-legal-battle-over-shake-it-off-plagiarism-accusation\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift wins legal battle over &#8216;Shake It Off&#8217; plagiarism accusation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been 6 years since R&amp;B singer <strong>Jesse Graham<\/strong> filed a plagiarism suit against <strong>Taylor<\/strong> <strong>Swift<\/strong>, pointing out similarities between the hit &#8220;<strong>Shake It Off<\/strong>&#8221; and her song &#8220;<strong>Haters Gonna Hate<\/strong>&#8220;. But, for the 4th time, the process was shelved, giving victory to the pop singer.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse&#8217;s indictment sought a $42 million claim, claiming that part of the lyrics to &#8220;Shake It Off&#8221; are very similar to the lines &#8220;<em><strong>haters gon&#8217; hate \/ Players gon&#8217; play \/ Watch out for the fakers \/ They&#8217;ll fake you every day<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, from her song \u201cHaters Gonna Hate\u201d, released in 2013.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taylor Swift - Shake It Off\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nfWlot6h_JM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The original <strong>lawsuit<\/strong> was dropped, but Jesse Graham kept trying until he was banned from filing a new lawsuit against Taylor after the third filing. However, according to the website <strong>Complete Music Update<\/strong>, the singer got a break to make his fourth attempt, which was also shelved.<\/p>\n<p>You may also like: <\/p>\n<p>According to documents, the court gave Taylor Swift victory in the case on the grounds that Jesse Graham did not offer enough <strong>evidence<\/strong> to demonstrate that the previous verdicts would have been unfair, and the singer remains innocent of the accusation of <strong>plagiarism<\/strong> in &#8220;Shake It Off&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been 6 years since R&amp;B singer Jesse Graham filed a plagiarism suit against Taylor Swift, pointing out similarities between the hit &#8220;Shake It Off&#8221; and her song &#8220;Haters Gonna Hate&#8220;. But, for the 4th time, the process was shelved, giving victory to the pop singer. Jesse&#8217;s indictment sought a $42 million claim, claiming that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":22964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[22],"class_list":{"0":"post-22946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pop","8":"tag-taylor-swift"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}