Taylor Swift to face a $1 million lawsuit filed by author over 2019 ‘Lover’ book

Taylor Swift has got bad blood with an author. The Don't Blame Me singer is facing a new copyright lawsuit that alleges she ripped off the book that accompanied her 2019 album Lover from a self-published book of poems under the same name. In a complaint filed, author Teresa La Dart claimed that "design and textual elements" from her 2010 book Lover were copied into Swift's book. According to documents, La Dart's lawyers claim that Swift's book – which sold 2.9 million copies in the U.S. alone – infringes La Dart's copyrights and the Grammy winner now owes their client in "excess of one million dollars" in damages. La Dart claims the books are "substantially the same format of a recollection of past years memorialised in a combination of written and pictorial components." The alleged similarities include covers that both feature "pastel pinks and blues," as well as an image of the author "photographed in a downward pose." Swift's latest legal headache comes five years after Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, accused her of plagiarising their lyrics for her 2014 hit track Shake It Off.

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