A Florida artist who accuses Taylor Swift of repeatedly stealing her work is now asking a federal judge to halt the release of Swift’s upcoming Disney+ docuseries.
On Monday, Kimberly Marasco filed a motion for a preliminary injunction asking the court to stop the rollout of The End of an Era, a six-part series chronicling Swift’s Eras Tour. Disney+ plans to begin streaming the show on December 12, with new episodes dropping weekly. Marasco says several episodes contain copyrighted material she claims Swift lifted directly from her original poetry.
Marasco is already suing Swift, Universal Music Group, and Republic Records for copyright infringement. It’s the second time she has taken Swift to court. The first lawsuit—filed last year—was dismissed after Marasco failed to serve Swift within the required time frame. A related complaint against Taylor Swift Productions was dismissed with prejudice in September.
This time, she argues the stakes are higher. In her motion, Marasco warned that once the docuseries airs globally, her words will be “irreversibly embedded in cultural products beyond Plaintiff’s reach,” leaving her without credit or control over the work she believes Swift appropriated.
Her filing names a slate of Swift songs she believes contain imagery and language that’s been lifted from her work: “The Man,” “My Tears Ricochet,” “Invisible String,” “Hoax,” “Illicit Affairs,” “Midnight Rain,” “Down Bad,” “Robin,” “The Manuscript,” “Guilty as Sin?,” “Clara Bow,” “The Great War,” and “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” She’s asking the court not only to pause the docuseries, but also to halt further sale, streaming, or performance of those tracks—or require edits that remove what she alleges to be infringing content.
Swift’s attorneys have flatly rejected the claims. In a memorandum filed in May, lawyers James Douglas Baldridge and Katherine Wright Morrone accused Marasco of “continuing to assert utterly frivolous copyright infringement claims.” They’ve maintained that none of Swift’s music or visuals borrow from Marasco’s work.
Disney, meanwhile, describes The End of an Era as an inside look at one of the most commercially successful tours in modern music history, featuring appearances from Gracie Abrams, Sabrina Carpenter, Ed Sheeran, Travis Kelce, Florence Welch, and members of Swift’s band and crew. Swift herself promoted the project last month, writing on Instagram that the filmmakers captured “every moment leading up to the culmination of the most important and intense chapter of our lives.”
Marasco insists the damage will be immediate and irreversible without court intervention. “Absent injunctive relief,” she wrote, “Plaintiff will suffer irreparable harm that monetary damages cannot remedy.”
The court has not issued a ruling on her motion. For now, the docuseries remains on Disney+’s December slate.
