It turned out to not be a cruel summer for Taylor Swift.
On July 26, Teresa La Dart filed to drop her $1 million copyright lawsuit against the singer, in keeping with court docs obtained by E! News. She had alleged Taylor’s 2019 book Lover—that accompanied her album under the identical name—was ripped off from Teresa’s self-published book of poems, also called Lover.
E! News reached out to Taylor’s rep and Teresa’s lawyer but has not received a comment.
Teresa claimed that “design and textual elements” from her 2010 book Lover were copied into Taylor’s, per her August 2022 grievance filed in a Tennessee federal court. In line with legal documents, obtained by E! News, the creator’s lawyers alleged that the Grammy winner’s book—which sold 2.9 million copies within the U.S. alone—infringed Teresa’s copyrights and that Taylor owed their client in “excess of a million dollars” in damages.
Teresa also said Taylor borrowed plenty of visual elements that mimicked her book and that each had “substantially the identical format of a recollection of past years memorialized in a mix of written and pictorial components.”
As for the alleged similarities, they consisted of covers that each featured “pastel pinks and blues,” in addition to a picture of the author “photographed in a downward pose.”