It turned out not to be a cruel summer for Taylor Swift.
On July 26, Teresa La Dart filed to drop her $1 million copyright lawsuit against the singer, according to court docs obtained by E! News. She had alleged Taylor's 2019 book Lover—that accompanied her album under the same name—was ripped off from Teresa's self-published book of poems, also called Lover.
E! News reached out to Taylor's rep and Teresa's lawyer but has not received a comment.
Teresa claimed that "design and textual elements" from her 2010 book Lover were copied into Taylor's, per her August 2022 complaint filed in a Tennessee federal court. According to legal documents, obtained by E! News, the author's lawyers alleged that the Grammy winner's book—which sold 2.9 million copies in the U.S. alone—infringed Teresa's copyrights and that Taylor owed their client in "excess of one million dollars" in damages.
Teresa also said Taylor borrowed a number of visual elements that mimicked her book and that both had "substantially the same format of a recollection of past years memorialized in a combination of written and pictorial components."
As for the alleged similarities, they consisted of covers that both featured "pastel pinks and blues," as well as an image of the writer "photographed in a downward pose."
Back in February, Taylor's lawyer Doug Baldridge spoke out on the lawsuit.
"This is a lawsuit that never should have been filed," he wrote in a statement, per Billboard. "These allegedly-infringing elements, each a generic design format, are not subject to copyright protection. Thus, defendants could not possibly have infringed plaintiff's copyright."
However, Teresa's counsel responded to Doug's comments with a statement of their own.
"Miss La Dart has questions that will hopefully and eventually be answered regarding her perceived similarities between the two works," William S. Parks said at the time. "Unfortunately, she felt it necessary to bring this suit in order to possibly obtain such answers. We will see how the judge decides at this point."
Her lawyers filed to dismiss the matter with prejudice.