{"id":2791,"date":"2026-04-29T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/taylor-swift-is-stepping-up-the-legal-war-on-ai-copycats\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:30:00","slug":"taylor-swift-is-stepping-up-the-legal-war-on-ai-copycats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/taylor-swift-is-stepping-up-the-legal-war-on-ai-copycats\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift is stepping up the legal war on AI copycats"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A photo of Taylor Swift\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo by Monica Schipper\/Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-2268536362.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Taylor Swift has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/1\/30\/24056385\/congress-defiance-act-proposed-ban-nonconsensual-ai-porn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at the center<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/9\/10\/24241538\/taylor-swift-endorses-kamala-harris-donald-trump-ai-endorsement-deepfake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI imitation controversies<\/a> for years, and now, she&rsquo;s become the latest celebrity who&rsquo;s escalating attempts to protect herself from AI copycats. As usual, however, the legal system intersects with technology in complicated ways &#8211; and Swift&rsquo;s efforts may be a long shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In trademark applications filed last week, Swift&rsquo;s team asked for protection for two phrases spoken by the singer: <a href=\"https:\/\/tsdr.uspto.gov\/documentviewer?caseId=sn99784980&amp;docId=APP20260424122018&amp;linkId=1#docIndex=0&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hey, it&rsquo;s Taylor Swift<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tsdr.uspto.gov\/documentviewer?caseId=sn99784979&amp;docId=APP20260424122010&amp;linkId=1#docIndex=0&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hey, it&rsquo;s Taylor<\/a>. The trademark applications, filed by TAS Rights Management on behalf of Swift, include audio clips of Swift saying the two phrases as part of a promotion for her latest album. \u00ab\u00a0Hey \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/919827\/taylor-swift-trademarks-ai-copycats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift has been at the center of AI imitation controversies for years, and now, she&rsquo;s become the latest celebrity [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}