{"id":786442,"date":"2026-07-07T16:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/786442\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T16:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:54:09","slug":"judge-sides-with-taylor-swift-in-florida-poets-plagiarism-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/786442\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge sides with Taylor Swift in Florida poet’s plagiarism lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A U.S. federal judge on Monday dismissed a\u00a0lawsuit accusing the newly married<\/a> pop megastar Taylor Swift of\u00a0plagiarizing phrases from a Florida woman’s \u200cpoems for more than a dozen songs.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon said the plaintiff,\u00a0Kimberly Marasco, failed to show that her poems constituted\u00a0protectable expression, \u200bor that Swift had seen the \u200bpoems and an average person would deem her songs substantially similar.<\/p>\n

Marasco represented herself. Reached by email, \u200bshe said she disagreed with the decision and\u00a0will appeal.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for \u2060Swift and the \u200cother defendants, including\u00a0Republic Records and Universal Music Group, did not\u00a0immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

Swift, 36, was accused of copying details from Marasco’s\u00a0poetry books \u2060for songs including Down Bad and I Can Do It with a Broken Heart, both from Swift’s 2024 album The Tortured\u00a0Poets Department.<\/p>\n

But the \u200cjudge said any commonality between Marasco’s poems and Swift’s songs consisted only of “unprotectable ideas, themes, metaphors, and isolated words.”<\/p>\n

Cannon gave many illustrations, including confronting\u00a0adversity, being “gaslighted” and \u200bbeing “submerged” under water.<\/p>\n

The judge dismissed an earlier version of Marasco’s lawsuit\u00a0 last \u2060September.<\/p>\n

She said that where Marasco made new allegations, “the works are \u2060not even substantially similar \u2014 a point plaintiff\u00a0effectively concedes by \u2060characterizing \u2060the alleged copying \u200bas ‘paraphrase,’ ‘rephrase,’ and copying with ‘minor word\u00a0substitutions.'”<\/p>\n

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Monday’s dismissal was with prejudice, meaning \u200bMarasco cannot amend \u2060her complaint. Cannon’s chambers are in Fort\u00a0Pierce, Fla.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Swift married Travis Kelce<\/a>, also 36, the star football player, at Madison Square Garden in\u00a0Manhattan on July 3. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-786442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}