A poet from Florida had claimed that the singer had copied from her at 15 songs.
Did Taylor Swift be unabashed with the poems of a poet from Florida? Kimberly Marasco had sued the singer last year because she suspected of several albums – including folklore, Evermore, Midnights and The Tortured Poets Department of Plagiat. Now a federal judge has rejected the lawsuit.
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The court came out loud “Billboard” To the conclusion that the applicant tried to claim property rights to basic ideas and “general words”, for example in songs like “The Man”, “My Tears Ricochet” and “Illicit Affairs”. The judge decided that Swift had probably never seen the poems that her texts were not similar to them, and that Marasco did not even have rights to the “general phrases” from which she claimed the musician.
The clear judgment: “The plaintiff’s poems at most consist of ideas, metaphors, contexts and topics – of which is not a subject of copyright protection.”
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A text comparison: In Swift’s song “Beams of Light” the text is: “And I Still Talk to You/When I’m Screaming at the Sky”. In Marasco’s poem it says: “The Dark Evil Entity Devoured in the Fire/Doves Dancing and Singing High In The Sky, and I Can Hear the Beautiful Choir.”
In the lawsuit it was stated that Swift’s lyrics contained some of the same words as Marasco’s poems, including words such as “tears”, “fear”, “time”, “rain”, “heaven”, “waves”, “cruel”, “common”, “longing”, “love” and “invisible” in certain combinations.
Such words are generally not protected by copyright, even if, by chance or not, they would occur in a similar thematic concentration. Marasco had filed a lawsuit against Taylor Swift Productions, the singer’s production company, and the 35-year-old personally.
It was now initially decided in the copyright lawsuit against the production company. But in the other case, too, Marasco is assigned little success scan, the lawsuit is based on the same allegations and is also assessed by the same judge.