{"id":530884,"date":"2026-07-08T08:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/530884\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:13:15","slug":"absurd-frivolous-and-harassing-taylor-swift-wins-copyright-lawsuit-over-her-song-lyrics-after-long-legal-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/530884\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Absurd, frivolous and harassing&#8221;: Taylor Swift wins copyright lawsuit over her song lyrics after long legal battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"elk-0c27ae0c-f6af-4d66-926a-9523d11d7c0f\">Pop superstar Taylor Swift has finally won a copyright lawsuit over her song lyrics, after beating claims labelled &#8220;absurd&#8221; by her legal team.<\/p>\n<p>Self-published poet Kimberley Marasco first brought a case against Swift in 2024, alleging that the singer-songwriter had stolen lines and taken inspiration from her poems to help create over a dozen songs on albums such as The Tortured Poets Department, Midnights, Evermore, and Folklore.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-0c27ae0c-f6af-4d66-926a-9523d11d7c0f-2\">However, on Monday 6 July, Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case, ruling that &#8220;common observations&#8221;, &#8220;ubiquitous metaphors&#8221; and vague references to gaslighting were the only common threads between the two artists&#8217; work (<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/taylor-swift-wins-absurd-copyright-lawsuit-over-her-song-lyrics-3955414\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/taylor-swift-wins-absurd-copyright-lawsuit-over-her-song-lyrics-3955414\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NME<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Latest Videos From<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicradar.com\/media\/img\/musicradar_logo.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"block h-[18px] w-auto shrink-0 brightness-0 invert\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicradar.com\/media\/img\/musicradar_logo.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"max-h-12 w-auto\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The allegedly infringed material \u2014 basic ideas, themes, metaphors, isolated words, and short phrases \u2014 is not protected expression and cannot be infringed,&#8221; said the Judge.<\/p>\n<p>Swift&#8217;s attorney Douglas Baldridge responded: &#8220;This is plaintiff&#8217;s second frivolous and harassing lawsuit&#8221; against the artist. He claimed that the case against her was &#8220;absurd and legally baseless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            You may like<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Swift has been embroiled in an intense copyright battle. Following the release of the popstar&#8217;s album, The Life of a Showgirl last year, the Las Vegas-based performer Maren Flagg claimed that the branding around the record infringed on her own registered trademark &#8216;Confessions of a Showgirl&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-b92570b4-5095-4a16-ad0c-bd126324af0b\">And back in 2023, a federal judge dismissed with prejudice a separate case filed by the Mississippi poet Teresa La Dart, who alleged that Swift&#8217;s 2019 album Lover had copied the title, colour scheme and format of a self-published poetry collection by the same name (<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/taylor-swift-wins-copyright-lawsuit-over-lover-book-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/taylor-swift-wins-copyright-lawsuit-over-lover-book-design\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pitchfork<\/a>). Swift has repeatedly faced these types of allegations and come out on top.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Want all the hottest music and gear news, reviews, deals, features and more, direct to your inbox? Sign up here. <\/p>\n<p>The news of the case&#8217;s dismissal comes just days after Swift tied the knot with American football player Travis Kelce, whom she&#8217;s dated since 2023. The wedding took place at Madison Square Garden on July 3, 2026, and included performances from the likes of Ed Sheeran, Selena Gomez and the Haim sisters.<\/p>\n<p>With this legal win, Swift has even more to celebrate. That being said, Marasco has pledged to appeal the decision. This may not be the last we hear of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pop superstar Taylor Swift has finally won a copyright lawsuit over her song lyrics, after beating claims labelled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-530884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}