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Taylor Swift sued by author who claims singer stole elements of her book

August 25,2022
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American singer-songwriter, Taylor Swift is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit over the 2019 book that accompanied her “Lover” album.

Lover broke records, becoming the top-selling album of 2019 in its first week.

Now, author Teresa La Dart, whose book “Lover” was published in 2010, filed a lawsuit in the Western District of Tennessee against Swift on Tuesday, August 23, claiming that the singer-songwriter stole the book’s title as well as several of its creative elements.

The author said a number of creative elements from her 2010 book Lover were copied into Swift’s 2019 book of the same name.

La Dart alleges that Swift’s book has substantially the same format and front and back covers as hers as well as a “similarly styled ‘Lover’ title”.

Taylor Swift sued by author who claims singer stole elements of her book

Swift’s book infringes La Dart’s copyrights, La Dart’s lawyer wrote in the lawsuit, and the star now owes in “excess of one million dollars” in damages.

“The defendants to this day have neither sought, nor obtained, a license from TLD of her creative design element rights, nor have they given any credit to TLD … let alone provided any monetary payments,” La Dart’s attorney William S. Parks wrote in the complaint.

Taylor Swift sued by author who claims singer stole elements of her book

The alleged similarities between La Dart’s book and Swift’s book include covers that both feature “pastel pinks and blues,” as well as an image of the author “photographed in a downward pose.”

Taylor Swift sued by author who claims singer stole elements of her book

La Dart also claims Swift copied the book’s “format,” namely “a recollection of past years memorialized in a combination of written and pictorial components.”

La Dart says the inner book design – specifically that it’s composed of “interspersed photographs and writings” – also infringed her copyrights.

Legal experts say those elements don’t sound unique enough to be covered by copyrights.

“As far as I can tell, she isn’t claiming that any of the actual content is similar,” said Aaron Moss, a veteran litigator at the firm Greenberg Glusker who writes about copyright lawsuits at his website Copyright Lately.

“The idea of memorializing a series of recollections over a number of years by interspersing ‘written and pictorial components’ isn’t protectable,” Moss said.

“If it were, this person might as well sue anyone who’s ever written a diary or made a scrap book.”

Moss added: “This lawsuit should be thrown out on a motion to dismiss, if the plaintiff’s lawyer doesn’t think better of it and voluntarily withdraw the complaint first.”

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