Taylor Swift Announces 2023 ERAS TOUR

Taylor Swift is shaking disconnected her ineligible woes.

A copyright suit involving the Grammy winner's "Shake It Off" deed opus has been dropped weeks earlier it was acceptable to spell to trial, according to tribunal documents obtained by E! News. Attorneys for some Swift and the songwriters down the suit, Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, jointly filed a stipulation connected Dec. 12 successful California asking the tribunal for an bid "dismissing this enactment successful its entirety," per the docs.

That aforesaid day, U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald ordered that the lawsuit was officially dismissed, successful its entirety and with prejudice, with the some parties bearing their respective attorney's fees and tribunal costs, the docs state. Before the deal, a proceedings had been scheduled to footwear disconnected successful January 2023.

The original copyright lawsuit was filed successful 2017 alleged that Swift, 33, had lifted lyrics for her smash deed astir "players" and haters" from the 2000 3LW opus "Playas Gon' Play." Per tribunal documents obtained by E! News, Swift refuted the accusation in an August 2022 declaration, writing, "The lyrics to 'Shake It Off' were written wholly by me."

In the declaration, Swift explained she was unaware of the R&B miss group—originally comprised of Adrienne Bailon, Kiely Williams and Naturi Naughton—because she "almost exclusively" listened to state euphony during peak of their occurrence and wasn't allowed to ticker MTV's TRL program, which aired 3LW's euphony videos, until she was 13 years old.

Furthermore, the "Anti-Hero" vocalist defended her thought process that "players gonna play" and "haters gonna hate" were communal phrases "uttered countless times" by galore others, including her friends astatine school, arsenic good arsenic state singer Eric Church in his 2014 opus "The Outsiders." She besides noted successful her declaration that she wore a garment from Urban Outfitter with the operation "haters gonna hate" portion performing astatine the 2013 Billboard Music Awards—a twelvemonth earlier she penned "Shake It Off."

However, a clever California justice ruled that helium did not person capable factual grounds to enactment his lawsuit and dismissed the suit using lyrics from respective of Swift's hits, including "Blank Space," "Bad Blood," "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and, yes, "Shake It Off," to bash so.

"At present, the Court is not saying that Braham tin never, ever, ever get his lawsuit backmost successful court," the justice wrote successful 2015, according to CNN. "But, for now, we person got problems, and the Court is not definite Braham tin lick them."

The judge continued, "As presently drafted, the Complaint has a blank space—one that requires Braham to bash much than constitute his name. And, upon information of the Court's mentation ... Braham whitethorn observe that specified pleading BandAids volition not hole the slug holes successful his case. At slightest for the moment, Defendants person shaken disconnected this lawsuit."