Three writers have ended their copyright lawsuit over BTS’s “SWIM,” which alleged that the song copied their unreleased demo of the same name; their attorneys asked the court to dismiss the case in full.

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on July 8 of the previous year against HYBE, HYBE America, BIGHIT MUSIC and associated songwriters.

The plaintiffs had partially withdrawn their claims on September 28 before completing the withdrawal on November 4, U.S. time.

U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II dismissed the case without prejudice on November 4, vacating deadlines and closing the proceedings while leaving the plaintiffs able to bring the claims again subject to legal requirements.

The case ended at an early stage, before HYBE and the other defendants had filed a formal response; neither side promptly commented on the dismissal.

The dismissal was not a ruling on whether BTS copied the writers’ work, and it did not resolve the musical-similarity allegations.

No reason for the withdrawal was made public, and the filings do not establish whether the parties reached a private settlement.

Big Hit Music had previously rejected the copying claim, saying “SWIM” was independently created and citing a musicologist’s analysis.

The lawsuit’s end comes as BTS’s ARIRANG passed five billion Spotify streams, making it the most-streamed album released in 2026 at the time of reporting.

ARIRANG’s tracks had each surpassed 200 million streams, while “SWIM” itself had topped one billion.