Popular American musician Taylor Swift has been slammed with a copyright infringement lawsuit by an author who alleged that she stole elements of her 2019 book.
Teresa La Dart, the author whose book “Lover” was published in 2010, filed a lawsuit in the Western District of Tennessee against Taylor Swift on Tuesday, August 23.
The author in the lawsuit claiming that Taylor Swift stole the book’s title as well as several of its creative elements of the book including its titled ‘Lover’ which broke records, becoming the top-selling album of 2019 in its first week.
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Taylor Swift’s book infringes La Dart’s copyrights, La Dart’s lawyer wrote in the lawsuit, and the star now owes in “excess of one million dollars” in damages.
“The defendants to this day have neither sought, nor obtained, a license from TLD of her creative design element rights, nor have they given any credit to TLD … let alone provided any monetary payments,” La Dart’s attorney William S. Parks wrote in the complaint.
