It turned out to not be a merciless summer season for Taylor Swift.
On July 26, Teresa La Dart filed to drop her $1 million copyright lawsuit in opposition to the singer, in line with courtroom docs obtained by E! Information. She had alleged Taylor’s 2019 ebook Lover—that accompanied her album beneath the identical identify—was ripped off from Teresa’s self-published ebook 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 components” from her 2010 ebook Lover have been copied into Taylor’s, per her August 2022 grievance filed in a Tennessee federal courtroom. In keeping with authorized paperwork, obtained by E! Information, the creator’s attorneys alleged that the Grammy winner’s ebook—which bought 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 quite a few visible components that mimicked her ebook and that each had “considerably the identical format of a recollection of previous years memorialized in a mixture of written and pictorial parts.”
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.”