Taylor Swift Wants to Copyright the Year of her Birth … Really?
Taylor Swift could probably stand to chill out a little bit. In addition to being one of the biggest pop stars in the world, she’s a savvy businesswoman with a commendable legal team — and she’s keeping them very busy.
Swift, who already trademarked the phrase “this sick beat” — which she definitely did not invent — has submitted a new set of baffling trademark applications, including one for the term “1989.”
Tantalizing Trademarks caught the applications filed by TAS (Taylor Allison Swift) Rights Management.
TSwift also filed requests to trademark “Swiftmas,” the title of her hit “Blank Space,” and a lyric from it: “and I’ll write your name.”
But perhaps the most revealing trademark she has her eye on is “A Girl Named Girl,” which is apparently the name of a book she wrote when she was 14.
Swift filed multiple trademarks to protect each phrase for different uses, such as merchandising or performances. The “1989” trademark applications seek to protect a stylized form of the number sequence, meaning that it would only protect any references to her album title — not technically the year itself.
You can check out the applications in full on the United States Trademark and Patent Office website, should you be concerned about your own rights to the phrase “A Girl Named Girl.”