Taylor SwiftDispute continues following February lawsuit against singer, whose most recent album shares its name with Utah attraction
Taylor Swifts legal dispute with a Utah theme park that shares a name with her album Evermore has escalated, with the singers rights management company countersuing the park for unauthorised use of Swifts music.
In February, representatives for Evermore filed a lawsuit against Swift, arguing that her December 2020 album Evermore infringed their copyright. They said the name had confused visitors and harmed the parks visibility in search engines. Swifts 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 reportedly applied for a retroactive licence for the music performances, but only after hearing of Swifts lawsuit. The park has not made a statement regarding the countersuit.
Swift is currently preparing an ambitious reissue programme. She has rerecorded her first six albums after the label that originally released them, Big Machine, sold the master recordings against her wishes. The first reissue, Fearless, is to be released on 9 April, including six previously unreleased tracks.
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