Taylor Swift Faces $1 Million Copyright Suit Over ‘Lover’ Book

Taylor Swift’s “Lover” broke records, becoming the top-selling album of 2019 in its first week. Three years later, Swift is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit over the book that accompanied her album.

Author Teresa La Dart, whose book “Lover” was published in 2010, filed a lawsuit in the Western District of Tennessee against Swift on Tuesday, claiming that the singer-songwriter stole the book’s title as well as several of its creative elements.

La Dart alleges that Swift’s book has substantially the same format and front and back covers as hers as well as a “similarly styled ‘Lover’ title” and similar ...