Taylor Swift lawsuit just keeps going | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: This is something that we've talked about now twice on

0:02 Speaker 1: the show. But I told you all we were gonna

0:05 Speaker 1: follow this closely. It has to do with Taylor Swift. No,

0:09 Speaker 1: it has nothing to do with her wedding. Couldn't care

0:11 Speaker 1: less about that. But this lawsuit. You know, Taylor Swift

0:16 Speaker 1: has been sued by this woman. I forget her name now,

0:21 Speaker 1: but she's got a podcast called Confessions of a Showgirl.

0:25 Speaker 1: Taylor Swift has an album called Life of a Showgirl.

0:28 Speaker 1: So this woman has sued Taylor Swift. And I think

0:32 Speaker 1: it's a frivolous lawsuit. But we've covered this twice on

0:35 Speaker 1: the show now because the story keeps evolving, and this lawsuit,

0:38 Speaker 1: while I think it's frivolous, has not gone away. This

0:41 Speaker 1: has not gone away. And there is an update on

0:43 Speaker 1: this again. This is from Music Businessworldwide dot com. Taylor

0:48 Speaker 1: Swift moves to dismiss Showgirl trademark lawsuit. Calls amended claims absurd. Okay,

0:55 Speaker 1: it says here Taylor Swift's legal team has filed US

0:58 Speaker 1: second motion to dismiss the trade mark infringement lawsuit brought

1:01 Speaker 1: by Las Vegas performer Mayri and flag I couldn't remember

1:04 Speaker 1: her name before over the branding of the Life of

1:07 Speaker 1: a Showgirl. The motion, filed on Tuesday in the US

1:11 Speaker 1: District Court for the Central District of California targets the

1:15 Speaker 1: first amended complaint that Flag filed on June sixteen. It

1:18 Speaker 1: was filed on behalf of all four defendants, Swift, task Metiaites,

1:24 Speaker 1: UMG and UMG's Merchandise Arm Bravado International Group by attorneys

1:29 Speaker 1: at Venable LLP. A hearing on the motion is scheduled

1:32 Speaker 1: for October seven. The defendants first moved to dismiss the

1:36 Speaker 1: case in May, arguing that Flag's original complaint failed to

1:39 Speaker 1: state a viable claim and lumped the defendants together more

1:43 Speaker 1: than ninety times. Flag responded by filing an amended complaint

1:47 Speaker 1: that resurrected her case, assigning such defendant a separate role,

1:51 Speaker 1: and added allegations that each directed its conduct at California

1:58 Speaker 1: in the Some of this I don't really understand, but

2:00 Speaker 1: I'm not a legal expert, but we'll go on. In

2:03 Speaker 1: the new motion, Swift's layers argue that the amended complaint

2:06 Speaker 1: fares no better than the original. The filing states quote

2:10 Speaker 1: by filing the amended complaint. Plaintiff concedes that her original

2:15 Speaker 1: claims were deficient and her second attempt fares no better.

2:19 Speaker 1: This lawsuit is merely Plaintiff's latest attempt to generate publicity

2:22 Speaker 1: by associating herself with miss miss Swift, unquote, m there's

2:30 Speaker 1: more to this. I don't know if yeah, we're not

2:32 Speaker 1: gonna have time to get through the whole thing. But

2:34 Speaker 1: basically so, if you don't know Maren flag, I guess

2:37 Speaker 1: that's her name. She has a podcast called Confessions of

2:39 Speaker 1: a Showgirl. I guess she's been doing it for a

2:41 Speaker 1: long time. Taylor Swift releases the album Life of a Showgirl,

2:45 Speaker 1: and Maren Flagg says that's a trademark infringement. She's infringed

2:48 Speaker 1: on my trademark. The reason I say that's frivolous is yes,

2:53 Speaker 1: both have the word showgirl in them. They also have

2:58 Speaker 1: the words of and uh in you know is so

3:02 Speaker 1: what this is? This is, in my opinion, very frivolous.

3:05 Speaker 1: There's no there's no confusion here. No one is going

3:08 Speaker 1: to confuse a podcast hosted by former Las Vegas showgirl

3:15 Speaker 1: with a Taylor Swift album, both of which happen to

3:18 Speaker 1: have the word showgirl. If you buy into Maren Flagg's argument,

3:22 Speaker 1: then you also have to buy into this idea that

3:25 Speaker 1: I guess she just owns the word showgirl and anyone

3:27 Speaker 1: who uses the word showgirl in any capacity of somehow

3:30 Speaker 1: infringing on her trademark. It's absurd. Um. I'm gonna skip

3:35 Speaker 1: down a little bit. I just want to make sure

3:37 Speaker 1: that this we're not missing anything important in this little update.

3:40 Speaker 1: But but the point is, and the details aren't don't

3:44 Speaker 1: matter so much at this point. It's just that I

3:48 Speaker 1: can't believe this is still going on, Like, how has

3:51 Speaker 1: this not been thrown out of court? Instead? It just

3:54 Speaker 1: keeps evolving and these lawyers that Maren Flagg is hired,

3:58 Speaker 1: they keep filing motions and amending claims, And I mean

4:02 Speaker 1: it says here, skipping to the end of the article.

4:04 Speaker 1: Flag first sued Swift in March, alleging that the branding

4:08 Speaker 1: of Swift's studio album threatened to quote drown out her

4:13 Speaker 1: Confessions of a Showgirl trademark, which she registered in twenty fifteen.

4:20 Speaker 1: Life of a Showgirl was released in October of twenty

4:22 Speaker 1: twenty five and sold more than four million equivalent album

4:25 Speaker 1: units in its first Week in the US. By the way,

4:27 Speaker 1: one other detail that's not mentioned here, but when Swift's

4:33 Speaker 1: album first came out, Life of a Showgirl, Maren Flagg

4:37 Speaker 1: tried to associate herself, tried to associate her podcast with

4:42 Speaker 1: the album, tried to kind of ride the coattails of

4:46 Speaker 1: that branding. So she tried to ride the coattails and

4:50 Speaker 1: then when I guess that didn't pan out for her

4:53 Speaker 1: well enough, she decided, Oh, now she's gonna cry trademark infringement.

4:57 Speaker 1: It's absurd. She doesn't own the word show girl. But

5:01 Speaker 1: this thing has not been thrown out and it keeps going.

5:05 Speaker 1: And I don't know these lawyers that she has, they

5:08 Speaker 1: keep trying. So there you have it. So just a

5:12 Speaker 1: quick update on that