Taylor Swift Being Sued – The Irony
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Pop star Taylor Swift has been accused of wrongfully using an artist’s work to promote her album 1989.
US artist Ally Burguieres complained on social media site Facebook after Swift used a wrongly-credited drawing of a fox identical to the artist’s watercolour designs, featuring the lyrics ‘They are the hunters, we are the foxes and we run’, from her song I Know Places.
Swift has removed the image but the artist insists she took months to provide compensation, that it wasn’t enough, and that she had to give it to charity.
How ironic this is, considering Taylor herself was recently involved with a legal case with Apple, due to their streaming service not paying artists for their work while the service was still in its trial period.
Of course, representatives of Taylor have said the image was only shared, and that Ms Burguieres had been more than fairly compensated.
A representative told magazine Rolling Stone “huge publicity this has generated for Ms Burguieres and her store”, and that “Ms Swift’s office had made a fair offer of payment well above reasonable licensing fee”.
In her Facebook post, the New Orleans artists asked “Taylor, as a professional, would you agree to such terms from Apple, or Spotify?” – this, of course, was referring to the fact the singer took her music off the streaming service Spotify and confronted Apple about artist payments.
The row over the image is the most recent in a line of legal disputes.
