Can The Players Play And The Haters Hate? What Software Developers Can Learn From Taylor Swift.

I saw with interest the copyright wrangle involving Taylor Swift's massive hit "Shake it off".  The dispute appears to be around the lines "players gonna play" and "haters gonna hate", which another group argued had previously been used in one of their songs.  In the original case, the Judge apparently considered that references to "players" and "haters" were commonplace in popular culture and that the phrases in question were banal and were no more than saying "drummers gonna drum", "runners gonna run" or "swimmers gonna swim".  However, in refusing to dismiss, the Judge apparently considered that "the court cannot presently determine that no reasonable juror could find substantial similarity of lyrical phrasing, word arrangement, or poetic structure between the two works".