Taylor Swift faced legal action because her recent album ‘Evermore’, released in December 2020, shared its name with a Utah theme park. Now, the matter has gotten serious with Swift’s rights management company countersuing them for using her music.
The lawsuit against her came in February alleging copyright infringement. They said the name had confused visitors and harmed the park’s visibility in search engines. Swift’s representatives called the suit “baseless … frivolous and irresponsible”.
Now, her company TAS Rights Management has countersued, alleging that the park played Swift songs on its grounds “without authorisation or license agreement”. They allege that the park “blatantly ignored the numerous notices from [US performance rights organisation] BMI and opted instead to continue to benefit from the free and unauthorised public performance” of three Swift songs.
Evermore has applied for a retroactive license for using the songs but that came only after Swift’s countersuit and has not yet made a statement about the same.
