{"id":9007,"date":"2025-12-09T21:26:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/taylor-swift-asks-judge-to-end-absurd-poetry-lawsuit-for-good\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T21:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:26:23","slug":"taylor-swift-asks-judge-to-end-absurd-poetry-lawsuit-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/taylor-swift-asks-judge-to-end-absurd-poetry-lawsuit-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Asks Judge To End ‘Absurd’ Poetry Lawsuit For Good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tTaylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s attorneys are seeking to end an \u201cabsurd\u201d lawsuit over claims she stole lyrics from a self-published Florida poet, saying the accuser\u2019s \u201cbaseless\u201d claims must be rejected \u201conce and for all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKimberly Marasco<\/strong> claims the star lifted material from her poems for more than a dozen songs, spanning Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights<\/em> and The Tortured Poets Department<\/em>. One such case was tossed out of court in September, but another case remains pending.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a scathing motion on Thursday, Swift\u2019s lawyers asked the judge to permanently dismiss that second lawsuit \u2013 saying Marasco had \u201cno conceivable case\u201d against the superstar, and that she had already been told that by the same judge.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cThis is plaintiff\u2019s second frivolous and harassing lawsuit against artist,\u201d writes Swift\u2019s longtime attorney Douglas Baldridge<\/strong>. \u201cPlaintiff\u2019s claims are, as in her last lawsuit, absurd and legally baseless.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSwift\u2019s lawyers told the judge that Marasco is trying to claim ownership of \u201cbasic themes\u201d and \u201cubiquitous metaphors,\u201d as well as an assortment of words seemingly \u201cplucked from random spots\u201d in the disputed works.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPlaintiff has wasted the time and resources of artist, the other defendants, and this court for long enough,\u201d Swift\u2019s lawyers write. \u201cPlaintiff\u2019s frivolous and harassing claims should be dismissed once and for all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMarasco first sued Taylor\u2019s company in 2024, claiming the superstar had stolen material for lyrics to songs like \u201cThe Man,\u201d \u201cMy Tears Ricochet,\u201d \u201cIllicit Affairs\u201d and many others. But that case was dismissed in September, when Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that Marasco didn\u2019t own any rights to the \u201ccommon\u201d phrases she claimed Swift had copied.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPlaintiff\u2019s poems amount at most to ideas, metaphors, contexts, and themes \u2014 none of which is a proper subject of copyright protection,\u201d the judge wrote at the time.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThough that ruling dismissed a case Marasco filed against the star\u2019s Taylor Swift Productions, the accuser filed a separate case in February against Swift herself over largely the same allegations.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn seeking to dismiss that case on Thursday, Swift\u2019s lawyers echoed Judge Cannon\u2019s ruling. Marasco is seeking to monopolize basic concepts \u201cfound throughout the world in countless works of art,\u201d they wrote, including something as simple as a \u201cfemale worker navigating a patriarchal corporate system.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPlaintiff alleges that artist unlawfully used plaintiff\u2019s ideas about time, a false or betrayed love, a woman being \u201cgaslighted,\u201d guilt, abandonment, and the concept of using a chair in a dance routine,\u201d Taylor\u2019s attorneys write.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Monday, Marasco quickly filed a response in court, arguing it was too early to dismiss her case. She claimed that she had, in fact, cited \u201cmultiple instances of verbatim phrasing\u201d pulled directly from her poems. But when she actually included those examples in the court filing, they were not actually verbatim.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn one comparison, the poem says: \u201cYou caged me and told me I\u2019m crazy\u201d; Taylor lyrics from \u201cWho\u2019s Afraid of Little Old Me?\u201d instead say: \u201cYou caged me and then you called me crazy.\u201d In another comparison cited by Marasco, her poem says: \u201cI\u2019m running behind, you it\u2019s his word against mine\u201d; in Taylor\u2019s line from \u201cThe Man,\u201d she instead says: \u201cI\u2019m so sick of running as fast as I can, wondering if I\u2019d get there quicker if I were a man.\u201d<\/p>\n


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