More bad blood?
An author has slammed Taylor Swift with a copyright lawsuit alleging the pop singer defrauded her book.
Teresa La Dart has sued Swift for more than a million dollars because the singer copied the author’s 2010 self-published poetry book “Lover” for the companion booklet to the 2019 album “Lover”.
In a complaint filed in federal court in Tennessee on Aug. 23, La Dart accused the “All Too Well” artist of defrauding her tome of “poems, anecdotes, and photos.”
The lawsuit alleged that someone on Swift’s team had seen La Dart’s book and decided to copy the book’s “ambiance and design,” The Daily Mail reports. The complaint alleged that not only do both works have the same title, but each is a “memory of past years, commemorated in a combination of written and pictorial components.”
La Dart also claimed that the color scheme and style of the images used are too similar to be a coincidence.
The “Bad Blood” singer is currently embroiled in another copyright lawsuit over her hit song “Shake It Off.”
Songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler have claimed that Swift used lines from their 2001 tune “Playas Gon’ Play,” which was performed by the girl group 3LW. The lawsuit, first filed in 2017, was dismissed but has been reopened on appeal.
In an affidavit, Swift denied stealing lyrics.
“Until I learned about the claim from plaintiffs in 2017, I had never heard the song ‘Playas Gon’ Play,’ and had never heard of that song or the group 3LW,” she said in a statement. “None of the CDs I listened to as a kid, or since, were by 3LW.”
Swift’s publicist did not respond to comment.