Taylor Swift has been sued for copyright infringement by a theme park in Utah that shares the identify of her hit album Evermore.
The theme park house owners allege that Swift’s album, launched in December 2020, has confused guests and negatively affected the park’s prominence on search engines like google, and that their merchandise designs have additionally been infringed upon. They’re looking for to assert damages in addition to their authorized prices.
Guests reportedly requested “whether or not the Evermore album was the results of a collaboration between Evermore and Taylor Swift or another sort of relationship” with the park, in line with their human sources director.
Representatives for Swift have referred to as the lawsuit “baseless … frivolous and irresponsible”, including: “It’s inconceivable that there’s any probability of confusion between your consumer’s theme park and associated merchandise and Ms Swift’s music and associated merchandise.”
Evermore, launched lower than 5 months after her earlier album Folklore, reached No 1 within the US and UK, her sixth consecutive album to take action.
One other lawsuit introduced in opposition to Swift is slowly making its approach by the US court docket system. In 2017, songwriters Sean Corridor and Nathan Butler alleged that Swift’s track Shake It Off had plagiarised lyrics from their track Gamers Gon’ Play by US lady group 3LW – each songs characteristic the lyrics “the gamers gonna play” and “the haters gonna hate”.
In 2018, a decide dominated that the lyrical conceit was not sufficiently inventive to be deemed an infringement, however the resolution was overturned on attraction, and in September 2020 the court docket case was confirmed to go forward as soon as extra.
Swift’s crew keep that Corridor and Butler “didn’t invent these frequent phrases nor are they the primary to make use of them in a track. We’re assured the true writers of Shake It Off will prevail once more.”