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ARTICLE · 16 MARCH 2021

Taylor Swift Fights Back!

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Last month, I blogged about a suit filed against Taylor Swift by Evermore Park, a Utah-based "immersive experience theme park."

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Last month, I blogged about a suit filed against Taylor Swift by Evermore Park, a Utah-based "immersive experience theme park."   That post is available here.   In a nutshell, the park claimed that by naming her most recent album "Evermore," Swift had infringed its trademark rights.  Among other things, Evermore Park complained about Swift's use of explicit lyrics and sale of merchandise that used vulgar terms (e.g., a "Fancy Shit" coffee mug).

Now the tables have turned.   Swift's management company and the owner of her copyrights and other IP rights, TAS Rights Management, LLC, has sued Evermore Park and its founder/CEO Ken Bretschneider in federal court in Swift's home state of Tennessee claiming that Evermore Park has infringed Swift's copyrights by playing Swift's music at the park without proper licensing.  According to the Complaint, available here, the performing rights organization BMI has been demanding since 2019 that Evermore Park obtain a public

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