Taylor Swift's Rights Management Team launches countersuit at Evermore Theme Park

Earlier this month, a fantasy theme park in Utah called Evermore sued Taylor Swift for a trademark infringement over her most recent album name. TAS Rights Management, the company that represents Swift's music and trademark rights, has now filed a countersuit against the theme park, as reported by Rolling Stone. 

The countersuit claims that Evermore Park regularly plays Taylor Swift's music on its grounds "without authorization or license agreement".

The docket includes two letters from performance rights organisation BMI to Evermore Park, from August and September 2019. Both letters inform the theme park of the copyrighted nature of music use.

“In the past, letters have been mailed to your attention along with licenses reflecting your music usage fee of $1,728.67 for the period of May, 2019 to December, 2019 only,” one letter states. “This fee does not include all other unlicensed periods in which you were using music.”

The lawsuit includes mention of the park’s use of “Love Story,” “You Belong With Me,” and “Bad Blood.” TAS' lawsuit also claims that, beginning in 2019, BMI repeatedly reached out to the theme park via phone calls, emails and letters, but that the amusement park only responded after learning that TAS' countersuit was imminent, and asks that Evermore Park pay enhanced statutory damages for each song and performance the park infringed upon.