This cheered me up no end
The phrase "haters gonna hate" is too "banal" to be copyrighted, a US judge has declared.Judge Michael W Fitzgerald made the comments while dismissing a copyright case against Taylor Swift.
"The lynchpin of this entire case is thus whether or not the lyrics 'Playas, they gonna play, and haters, they gonna hate' are eligible for protection," he wrote.
"In the early 2000s, popular culture was adequately suffused with the concepts of players and haters to render the phrases 'playas… gonna play' or 'haters… gonna hate', standing on their own, no more creative than 'runners gonna run'; 'drummers gonna drum'; or 'swimmers gonna swim.'
"The concept of actors acting in accordance with their essential nature is not at all creative; it is banal.
"The allegedly infringed lyrics are short phrases that lack the modicum of originality and creativity required for copyright protection,"
Hats off Judge Fitzgerald...hats off