Taylor Swift Sued For 'Stealing Concept' Of 2019 'Lover' Booklet

Taylor Swift is facing a lawsuit for allegedly copying the concept of a self-published book which she incorporated in making a booklet she released as part of her 2019 album "Lover."

Author Teresa La Dart filed a copyright lawsuit against the "Look What You Made Me Do" singer in a Tennessee federal court Tuesday and claimed that the singer copied "design and textual elements" from her 2010 book of poems also titled "Lover."

La Dart and her legal team claimed both books are "substantially the same format of a recollection of past years memorialized in a combination of written and pictorial components." Thus, they are seeking an "excess of one million dollars" in damages as the singer's book – which sold 2.9 million copies in the U.S., infringes La Dart's copyrights.

The author said the similarities between her work and the "All Too Well" singer's booklet include pastel covers as well as an image of the author "photographed in a downward pose."

Additionally, she said the color scheme of Swift's book and the style of the photos on the cover and foreword, and the "interspersed photographs and writings," are very much the same as her book.

Swift's latest legal problem comes at the heels of another copyright lawsuit filed by songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler who accused the singer of plagiarizing lyrics from a 3LW song "Playas Gon' Play."

The songwriters claim Swift stole the lyrics of their song particularly the lines, "Playas gon' play / And haters, they gon' hate" and incorporated them in her Grammy-nominated track "Shake It Off." The disputed line from the song says "'Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play / And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate."

Swift refuted the accusation and said she has never heard of "Playas Gon' Play" because she "almost exclusively" listened to country music at the time and "did not watch the MTV show TRL." She also said she never went to clubs where mainstream music was played.

"Until learning about Plaintiffs' claim in 2017, I had never heard the song 'Playas Gon' Play and had never heard of that song or the group 3LW,'" Swift said in the court documents obtained by E! News.

"The first time I ever heard the song was after this claim was made," Swift told the outlet.