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Taylor Swift is the subject of another lawsuit this month after an author has claimed that the pop star copied “design and textual elements” for her book Lover in 2019. The book – which sold more than 2.9 million copies – was released as part of her album launch in the same year.
In a complaint filed in a Tennessee federal court this week and obtained by E! News, Teresa La Dart’s lawyers claim the book infringes on the author’s copyright and that Swift owes their client in “excess of one million dollars” in damages. The two books share the same name, and are “substantially the same format of a recollection of past years memorialised in a combination of written and pictorial components.” Including the use of “pastel pinks and blues,” and an image of the author in a “downward pose”.
Swift has not responded to the lawsuit.
It comes five years after songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler of the track “Playas Gon’ Play” accused the pop star of plagiarising their lyrics for her 2014 hit “Shake It Off”. In early August this year the singer finally responded to the claims per court documents, stating, “The lyrics to ‘Shake It Off’ were written entirely by me.”
She continued, “Until learning about Plaintiffs’ claim in 2017, I had never heard the song ‘Playas Gon’ Play and had never heard of that song or the group 3LW’. The first time I ever heard the song was after this claim was made.” The outcome of the lawsuit is not known yet.
Unfortunately Swift also found herself in hot water again this month when a digital marketing firm claimed she took 170 private flights in 200 days. The findings weren’t exactly accurate with a rep for the singer quickly responding, “Taylor’s jet is loaned out regularly to other individuals. To attribute most or all of these trips to her is blatantly incorrect.”
