Taylor Swift is being sued by an author who claims the singer stole parts of her book, glamsquad reports.
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Taylor Swift is being sued for copyright infringement in connection with the 2019 book that accompanied her “Lover” album.
Lover broke records in its first week, becoming the best-selling album of 2019.
Author Teresa La Dart, whose book “Lover” was published in 2010, has now filed a lawsuit against Swift in the Western District of Tennessee, claiming that the singer-songwriter stole the book’s title as well as several creative elements.
According to the author, several creative elements from her 2010 book Lover were copied into Swift’s 2019 book of the same name.
Swift’s book, according to La Dart, has a “similarly styled ‘Lover’ title” as hers, as well as the same format and front and back covers.
Swift’s book infringes on La Dart’s copyrights, according to La Dart’s lawyer, and the star now owes “in excess of one million dollars” in damages.
“To this day, the defendants have neither sought nor obtained from TLD a license of her creative design element rights, nor have they given any credit to TLD… let alone provided any monetary payments,” wrote La Dart’s attorney William S. Parks in the complaint.
The alleged similarities between La Dart’s book and Swift’s book include “pastel pinks and blues” on both covers, as well as an image of the author “photographed in a downward pose.”
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Swift, according to La Dart, also copied the book’s “format,” which is “a recollection of past years memorialized in a combination of written and pictorial components.”
La Dart claims that the inner book design, specifically the “interspersed photographs and writings,” violated her copyrights as well.
According to legal experts, those elements do not sound distinctive enough to be protected by copyright.
