Taylor Swift Can Formally Shake Off $1 Million Lover Guide Lawsuit – E! On-line

It turned out to not be a merciless summer time for Taylor Swift.

On July 26, Teresa La Dart filed to drop her $1 million copyright lawsuit towards the singer, in accordance with court docket docs obtained by E! Information. She had alleged Taylor’s 2019 e book Lover—that accompanied her album below the identical identify—was ripped off from Teresa’s self-published e book of poems, additionally referred to as Lover. 

E! Information reached out to Taylor’s rep and Teresa’s lawyer however has not obtained a remark. 

Teresa claimed that “design and textual parts” from her 2010 e book Lover had been copied into Taylor’s, per her August 2022 criticism filed in a Tennessee federal court docket. In keeping with authorized paperwork, obtained by E! Information, the creator’s legal professionals alleged that the Grammy winner’s e book—which offered 2.9 million copies within the U.S. alone—infringed Teresa’s copyrights and that Taylor owed their consumer in “extra of 1 million {dollars}” in damages.

Teresa additionally mentioned Taylor borrowed a lot of visible parts that mimicked her e book and that each had “considerably the identical format of a recollection of previous years memorialized in a mixture of written and pictorial elements.”

As for the alleged similarities, they consisted of covers that each featured “pastel pinks and blues,” in addition to a picture of the author “photographed in a downward pose.”