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Next thing you know everyone is singing this one line "shake it like a polaroid picture." ♪ shake it ♪ ♪ shake it ♪ ♪ shake it ♪ polaroid was the instant camera, and the picture came out, and for some strange reason as the image was forming people would do this. they would shake it. as if that was going to make it happen faster. so he says that line in the song, and suddenly everyones doing that. you had this cultural moment that everybody feels they need to be part of. now you know ...

Scrubs. the first line of a song. ♪ a scrub is a guy that thinks hes fly and also known as a busta ♪ heller. thats what a scrub is and now the whole world knows it. >> with the taylor swift shake it off case, its almost a non-starter because it was thrown out by the first judge who heard it. >> judge w. michael fitzgerald dismissed the case saying combining the phrases players gonna play, haters gonna doesnt doesnt worry copyright infringement. >> the judge said that particular phrase was to...

Swift submitted a decoloration, and in it, she states i listened to country music almost exclusively. in my house we played cds and rarely played the radio. when i listened to the radio, it was again really country music. i did not watch the mtv show "trl" and i did not go to clubs during this time. i believe it. taylor swift grew up on a christmas tree farm and weve seen the early videos of her playing the guitar from when she was a little girl and she started as a country music artist. >> tayl...

♪ ♪ >> the thing that stood out to me was more than just the words. there were quite a few structural things that i saw within the composition thats in both songs. theyre both used as the hooks, a hook is -- thats the chorus, thats the part of the song everybody remembers. >> in the "shake it off" lawsuit taylor swifts team is arguing the phrase, players gonna play, haters gonna hate are part of the public domain. theyve been out there and fair use and alleging its a money grab from hall and...

Nathan butler and hall sued taylor swift saying she took it from 3 lw called "players gonna play". >> they filed a lawsuit against taylor swift saying the lines players gonna play, haters gonna hate come from 3 lw. >> for those who say they hear no similarity between "shake it off" and "players gonna play" you would have to listen to three sets of ear muffs to argue at that. >> some lawyers rerawe ran the situation by didnt get it because people say copyright infri infringement, nine times out o...

Nowhere original. >> what makes it original is what is your perspective? ♪ ♪ >> so i went through the ariana seven rings and took it back with a classic melody of "favorite things." ♪ ♪ >> it started over those simple -- that simple little thing and then taking it to the future and doing a completely different interpretation. ♪ ♪ >> it was scary because were taking this iconic classic song and trapping it out. they could have been like no, no, no, we cannot have this iconic song soun...

>> ariana grande agreed to sign over 90% of the royalties to the estate. she got permission from them and that was the deal they made. >> after having a few conversations and figuring it all out and us all being like man, is it worth it to keep it in there? it is. lets go. >> originality is so much more about taking something that you love, filtering it through your perspective, filtering it through your other influences, blending it all together and i think thats the thing that someone is like ...

If you had a deal then its because you fought for it. ♪ ♪ >> so before i got in the music business i started acting doing a movie called "little spies". >> my mom cook some stuff that tastes like dog food. >> movies and a lot of commercials. i kind of grew up in the business and then when i turned like 9, 10, 11, i was like okay, music is my thing. i met nate butler through a friend. nate was just leaving college. he wanted to write music. so we met and we hit it off like immediately and bec...

The way that people make mistakes with accidental plagiarism is just human nature. >> if you can prove that you independently created a song that substantially similar to another but had no idea, had never heard of the preexisting song is just purely coincidental that is a defense. >> he didnt deny he knew the song. it was a big hit but it was just something that he didnt put together and he thought he had written a totally original song. george harrison lost that case and was required to pay a ...

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