The copyright lawsuit for Taylor Swift's Lover book has been dropped
Last summer, a Mississippi poet and author named Teresa La Dart filed a copyright lawsuit against Taylor Swift.
The author claimed that Swift had stolen design details of her 2010 poetry book Lover and used it for the book accompanying Swift’s album of the same name in 2019.
In the initial complaint which was obtained by Pitchfork, La Dart alleged that Swift’s Lover book – which came with the special edition CD release of her album – copied “a number of creative elements” from the cover of her self-published poetry book. La Dart’s lawyer claimed that Swift owed her in “excess of one million dollars” in damages as a result of the copyright.
La Dart also claimed that Swift infringed upon the format of her book, noting that Swift’s was also “a recollection of past years memorialized in a combination of written and pictorial components” that included “interspersed photographs and writings.”
On Thursday (27 July) in a Tennessee federal court, it had been revealed that the case was permanently dropped, as the result of a voluntary dismissal, not a settlement.
Neither Taylor Swift or Teresa La Dart have released further statements.
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