{"id":63134,"date":"2022-08-25T14:01:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T04:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=219367"},"modified":"2022-08-25T15:16:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T15:16:37","slug":"taylor-swift-lover-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/taylor-swift-lover-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Is Facing Another Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_63135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63135\" style=\"width: 3600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-63135 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1241243278-Cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2025\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Raymond Hall\/GC Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/amsterdam-trailer-taylor-swift-margot-robbie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a> is the subject of another lawsuit this month after an author has claimed that the pop star copied &#8220;design and textual elements&#8221; for her book\u00a0<em>Lover\u00a0<\/em>in 2019. The book, which sold more than 2.9 million copies, was released as part of her album launch in the same year.<\/p>\n<p>In a complaint filed in a Tennessee federal court this week and obtained by\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1343350\/taylor-swift-facing-s1-million-lawsuit-filed-by-author-over-2019-lover-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">E! News<\/a>,<\/em> Teresa La Dart&#8217;s lawyers claim the book infringes on the author&#8217;s copyright and that Swift owes their client in &#8220;excess of one million dollars&#8221; in damages. The two books share the same name, and are &#8220;substantially the same format of a recollection of past years memorialized in a combination of written and pictorial components.&#8221; Including the use of &#8220;pastel pinks and blues,&#8221; and an image of the author in a &#8220;downward pose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Swift has not responded to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>It comes five years after songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler of the track &#8220;Playas Gon&#8217; Play&#8221; accused the pop star of plagiarizing their lyrics for her 2014 hit &#8220;Shake It Off.&#8221; In early August this year the singer finally responded to the claims <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1341333\/taylor-swift-responds-to-shake-it-off-copyright-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">per court documents<\/a>, stating, &#8220;The lyrics to &#8216;Shake It Off&#8217; were written entirely by me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She continued, &#8220;Until learning about Plaintiffs&#8217; claim in 2017, I had never heard the song &#8216;Playas Gon&#8217; Play and had never heard of that song or the group 3LW&#8217;. The first time I ever heard the song was after this claim was made.&#8221; The outcome of the lawsuit is not known yet.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately Swift also found herself in hot water <em>again\u00a0<\/em>this month when a digital marketing firm <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/taylor-swift-private-jet-controversy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed she took 170 private flights in 200 days<\/a>. The findings weren&#8217;t exactly accurate with a rep for the singer quickly responding, \u201cTaylor\u2019s jet is loaned out regularly to other individuals. 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