Over the last fall, the "You Belong With Me" singer and pop superstar made headlines after she removed all but one of her songs from major music streaming website Spotify, and now it seems she's entering yet another battle over her copyrighted material, as Taylor Swift's Etsy war begins for the star.
Although media has reported in the past that she and Super Bowl halftime show artist Katy Perry are sworn archenemies, it seems like they're following the same legal footsteps - in the very same week!
Only days after Katy Perry's lawyers sent out a cease-and-desist letter to a man selling 3D printer renderings of the famous Left Shark meme from her Super Bowl performance, Katy Perry's people did the same thing to the peer-to-peer e-commerce website, starting the first battle of what promises to be a full-fledged Taylor Swift Etsy war.
According to Buzzfeed News, the Taylor Swift Etsy war began slowly, as more and more items that have Swift's picture on them or refer to her copyrighted material have been disappearing from the website over the past few days, and it seems that this has happened due to the fact that her legal team has been sending out letters to the handmade supplies sold on the Brooklyn-based website.
As Yahoo! News reports, this is only days after the singer made headlines for trying to trademark a few lines of songs from her latest album, the hit "1989." The phrases sent to the government to trademark are "party like it's 1989," "'cause we never go out of style," "nice to meet you, where you been?" and "could show you incredible things."
While these are pending for approval, the singer has asked that all items related to other trademarked song lyrics be removed. According to the Justia database, the singer already has a vast number of trademarked lyrics from previous albums.
Could this be the start of a Taylor Swift Etsy war or just a friendly reminder for the sellers?
