Composers and Taylor Swift concur to end the Shake It Off copyright dispute.

In August, Taylor Swift testified in court that prior to writing Shake It Off, she had never heard the song by 3LW.

Composers and Taylor Swift concur to end the Shake It Off copyright dispute.

According to court records submitted on Monday, two songwriters who had sued Taylor Swift for allegedly stealing their lyrics for her 2014 number-one hit Shake It Off have dismissed their lawsuit. Sean Hall and Nathan Butler informed a federal judge in Los Angeles that they would dismiss their 2017 case with prejudice, which prevents a re-filing.

The case's trial was supposed to start on January 17.

Swift and the songwriters' legal counsel filed court documents on Monday, but they did not mention whether a settlement had been reached. Requests for more information were not immediately answered by representatives of the parties. "The players going to play, play, play, play, and the haters going to hate, hate, hate, hate," Swift says in the song Shake It Off.

Hall and Butler used the lyrics "playas, they going to play, and haters, they going to hate" in their song "Playas Gon' Play." The song, which was sung by the R&B trio 3LW, was released in 2001 and featured on both MTV's Total Request Live and the Billboard Hot 100.

In 2018, a judge rejected the case, but in 2019, a US appeals court reinstated it.

In August, Swift testified in court that prior to writing Shake It Off, she had never heard the song by 3LW. The expressions "players going to play" and "haters going to hate" are frequently heard to "convey the idea that one can or should shrug off adversity," she claimed.

 Composers and Taylor Swift concur to end the Shake It Off copyright dispute.

According to Hall and Butler, the lyrics are too similar to be a coincidence. They had demanded unspecified monetary damages.