Taylor Swift Sued For Trademark Infringement Over ‘The Life of a Showgirl’

I don’t think you can own “…of a Showgirl”?

I mean, Swift is no stranger to frivolous lawsuits and ridiculous copyrights. She’s just not used to receiving them.

After all, this is the woman who insisted that passionately yelling something at the climax of a bridge is plagiarism and tried to copyright the phrase “shake it off” on damn near everything.

Maybe this will encourage her and her team to stop?

“In the lawsuit, Wade accuses Swift of ignoring her trademark. She says her brand has been undermined, with consumers believing that she copied the singer. “The continued erosion of that mark threatens the entirety of” Wade’s brand, the complaint states.”

This is the key here. On the surface this case does feel like a reach, but if Wade can prove that they have lost business or otherwise had their reputation (no swift pun intended) impacted, there may be something here. If suddenly an established brand loses a ton of engagement, especially since Swift’s trademark request was denied, this isn’t a total nothing-burger. Swift may have to seriously consider buying out the existing trademark.

not to be a super cunt but she has less than 2k followers and “showgirl” was introduced into the dictionary in 1836 so this feels like a wild stretch tbh

IMO ‘of a showgirl’ is too common unfortunately, the substantial/defining part of the mark would be the combination with ‘confessions’. As much as I’d like this to be a Katy/Katie Perry sitch (including the underdog win).

lol

lmao

Mm… I’m not a fan of Taylor but I feel like using “of a showgirl” is pretty broad. It’s not like the first person coined the word showgirl or even made it popular. But then again I’m not a copyright lawyer either!

get her!