Newlywed Taylor Swift can continue to celebrate with Emmy nominations and a legal win

Taylor Swift has yet different caller happening to celebrate.

Now successful her newlywed era, the popular superstar’s performance film, “The Eras Tour: The Final Show,” earned 5 Emmy nominations Wednesday. This includes nods for assortment peculiar (pre-recorded), dependable mixing for a assortment bid oregon special, directing for a assortment special, representation editing for assortment programming, and method absorption and camerawork for a special.

The information for assortment peculiar (pre-recorded) means Swift herself is simply a nominee arsenic the performer and a shaper of the performance film, which showcased the last show of her record-breaking tour. This marks the “The Life of a Showgirl” singer-songwriter’s 2nd vocation Emmy nomination. She antecedently won successful 2015 successful the class of originative accomplishment successful interactive media — archetypal interactive program, arsenic the enforcement shaper of the mobile app AMEX Unstaged: Taylor Swift Experience.

The accolades travel conscionable 5 days aft Swift joined beau Travis Kelce successful an extravagant — yet secretive — Manhattan matter astatine Madison Square Garden. The Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity has spoken astir his failed effort to descent Swift his telephone fig (via relationship bracelet) erstwhile helium attended an Eras circuit performance successful 2023.

The Emmy nominations travel her latest ineligible win. On Monday, a national justice successful Florida dismissed with prejudice a copyright suit that accused Swift of plagiarizing a self-published poet.

In February 2025, Kimberly Marasco, representing herself, filed a suit that alleged Swift copied “unique expressions” specified arsenic abbreviated phrases and circumstantial words from her poesy successful galore songs, including “The Man,” “Down Bad,” “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart,” “Hoax,” “Guilty arsenic Sin?” and “It’s Time to Go.” A akin suit Marasco filed against Swift and different named defendants was dismissed by the aforesaid justice past September.

Swift’s lawyers called the suit “absurd and legally baseless” successful their filings. “For instance, the conception of betrayal oregon the words ‘fire’ oregon ‘love’ cannot beryllium owned by 1 person, arsenic basal themes oregon words are not protectable by copyright law,” reads the question to disregard submitted by attorneys James Douglas Baldridge and Katherine Wright Morrone, who besides represented co-defendants Republic Records and Universal Music Group.

In her bid granting Swift and her grounds label’s motion, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon agreed, reiterating that “the allegedly infringed worldly — basal ideas, themes, metaphors, isolated words, and abbreviated phrases — is not protected look and cannot beryllium infringed.”

Cannon mentioned these allegedly plagiarized words and phrases included “tears,” “running,” “fire,” “rain,” “sky,” “love,” “invisible,” “caged me,” “flesh and blood” and “it’s clip to go.”

Even if they were protected expressions, “the works are not adjacent substantially akin — a constituent Plaintiff efficaciously concedes by characterizing the alleged copying arsenic ‘paraphrase[s],’ ‘rephrase[s],’ and copying with ‘minor connection substitutions,’” Cannon wrote.

But it appears Swift has not wholly shaken disconnected Marasco’s copyright lawsuit. The Florida writer has already filed an appeal.