Taylor Swift lawsuit just keeps going | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 This is something that we've talked about now twice on the show. But I told you all we were gonna follow this closely. It has to do with Taylor Swift. No, it has nothing to do with her wedding. Couldn't care less about that. But this lawsuit. You know, Taylor Swift has been sued by this woman. I forget her name now, but she's got a podcast called Confessions of a Showgirl. Taylor Swift has an album called Life of a Showgirl. So this woman has sued Taylor Swift. And I think it's a frivolous lawsuit.

0:33 But we've covered this twice on the show now because the story keeps evolving, and this lawsuit, while I think it's frivolous, has not gone away. This has not gone away. And there is an update on this again. This is from Music Businessworldwide dot com. Taylor Swift moves to dismiss Showgirl trademark lawsuit. Calls amended claims absurd. Okay, it says here Taylor Swift's legal team has filed US second motion to dismiss the trade mark infringement lawsuit brought by Las Vegas performer Mayri and flag I couldn't remember her name before over the branding of the Life of a Showgirl.

1:08 The motion, filed on Tuesday in the US District Court for the Central District of California targets the first amended complaint that Flag filed on June sixteen. It was filed on behalf of all four defendants, Swift, task Metiaites, UMG and UMG's Merchandise Arm Bravado International Group by attorneys at Venable LLP. A hearing on the motion is scheduled for October seven. The defendants first moved to dismiss the case in May, arguing that Flag's original complaint failed to state a viable claim and lumped the defendants together more than ninety times.

1:44 Flag responded by filing an amended complaint that resurrected her case, assigning such defendant a separate role, and added allegations that each directed its conduct at California in the Some of this I don't really understand, but I'm not a legal expert, but we'll go on. In the new motion, Swift's layers argue that the amended complaint fares no better than the original. The filing states quote by filing the amended complaint. Plaintiff concedes that her original claims were deficient and her second attempt fares no better.

2:19 This lawsuit is merely Plaintiff's latest attempt to generate publicity by associating herself with miss miss Swift, unquote, m there's more to this. I don't know if yeah, we're not gonna have time to get through the whole thing. But basically so, if you don't know Maren flag, I guess that's her name. She has a podcast called Confessions of a Showgirl. I guess she's been doing it for a long time. Taylor Swift releases the album Life of a Showgirl, and Maren Flagg says that's a trademark infringement.

2:48 She's infringed on my trademark. The reason I say that's frivolous is yes, both have the word showgirl in them. They also have the words of and uh in you know is so what this is? This is, in my opinion, very frivolous. There's no there's no confusion here. No one is going to confuse a podcast hosted by former Las Vegas showgirl with a Taylor Swift album, both of which happen to have the word showgirl. If you buy into Maren Flagg's argument, then you also have to buy into this idea that I guess she just owns the word showgirl and anyone who uses the word showgirl in any capacity of somehow infringing on her trademark.

3:32 It's absurd. Um. I'm gonna skip down a little bit. I just want to make sure that this we're not missing anything important in this little update. But but the point is, and the details aren't don't matter so much at this point. It's just that I can't believe this is still going on, Like, how has this not been thrown out of court? Instead? It just keeps evolving and these lawyers that Maren Flagg is hired, they keep filing motions and amending claims, And I mean it says here, skipping to the end of the article.

4:04 Flag first sued Swift in March, alleging that the branding of Swift's studio album threatened to quote drown out her Confessions of a Showgirl trademark, which she registered in twenty fifteen.

4:20 Life of a Showgirl was released in October of twenty twenty five and sold more than four million equivalent album units in its first Week in the US. By the way, one other detail that's not mentioned here, but when Swift's album first came out, Life of a Showgirl, Maren Flagg tried to associate herself, tried to associate her podcast with the album, tried to kind of ride the coattails of that branding. So she tried to ride the coattails and then when I guess that didn't pan out for her well enough, she decided, Oh, now she's gonna cry trademark infringement.

4:57 It's absurd. She doesn't own the word show girl. But this thing has not been thrown out and it keeps going. And I don't know these lawyers that she has, they keep trying. So there you have it. So just a quick update on that