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\n Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2018s attorneys have slapped back at a lawsuit filed by a former Las Vegas showgirl who claims that the pop superstar\u2019s \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl<\/a>\u201d album title infringes on her trademark for the phrase \u201cConfessions of a Showgirl.\u201d The lawyers call the argument that there could be confusion between the services provided by the two women \u201cabsurd.\u201d<\/p>\n \n Maren Flagg, who performs as Maren Wade, filed the lawsuit in United States District Court in California in late March. She trademarked \u201cConfessions of a Showgirl\u201d in 2015 and has used it for a newspaper column, podcast and cabaret performances. Her lawsuit claimed that the two titles \u201cshare the same structure, the same dominant phrase, and the same overall commercial impression. Both are used in overlapping markets and are directed at the same consumers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n Flagg asked for a preliminary injunction that would immediately bar Swift from further use of the \u201cLife of a Showgirl\u201d brand. A brief filed Wednesday by Swift\u2019s attorneys and reviewed by Variety<\/em> begins: \u201cThis motion, just like Maren Flagg\u2019s lawsuit, should never have been filed. It is simply Ms. Flagg\u2019s latest attempt to use Taylor Swift\u2019s name and intellectual property to prop up her brand\u2026<\/p>\n \n \u201cPlaintiff attempts to broadly lump her cabaret show and defendants\u2019 musical album together as \u2018entertainment services.\u2019 That comparison is absurd,\u201d Swift\u2019s lawyers continue. They argue there is little chance of confusion between Swift\u2019s top-grossing stadium tour and cabaret appearances in which the defendant \u201cperforms, if at all, in small intimate venues, such as a: \u201955+ active community,\u2019 \u201955+ golf resort\u2019; \u2018RV & Golf Resort\u2019; \u201990 seat cabaret-style venue\u2019 that offers dinner; hotel; and private supper club. Her website lists no upcoming performances.\u201d<\/p>\n \n Moreover, Swift\u2019s team asks the judge to consider why Flagg is asking for immediate relief on the basis of irreparable harm eight months after the album was first announced \u2014 and argues that Flagg spent several of those months trying to associate herself with \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d in her messaging.<\/p>\n \n \u201cSince the album announcement, plaintiff has reframed her brand around the album, flooding her social media accounts with posts attempting to align herself with Ms. Swift and the album,\u201d the brief says. \u201cPrior to the album announcement, plaintiff had never used \u2018the life of a showgirl\u2019 in her social media promotion. Following the announcement, plaintiff used the phrase or posted generally about Ms. Swift or the album over 40 times on her branded Instagram and TikTok accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n \n Swift\u2019s attorneys suggest that they may be going after Flagg for her own use of Swift\u2019s music and imagery.<\/p>\n \n \u201cFar from showing any concern about the album after its announcement, Ms. Flagg spent several months centering her brand on \u2018The Life of a Showgirl\u2019s\u2019 <\/em>name, artwork, music, and lyrics to promote her little-known cabaret show,\u201d reads the brief. \u201cIn fact, a mere four days after Ms. Swift announced her album title and artwork in August 2025, Ms. Flagg announced a brand-new podcast mimicking Ms. Swift\u2019s Album artwork, logo, title, and taglines. Then, plaintiff flooded her Instagram and TikTok pages with 40+ advertisements for her brand using Ms. Swift\u2019s music, trademarks, and other intellectual property without permission. <\/p>\n \n \u201cEach of these advertisements constitutes actionable infringement,\u201d the brief argues, \u201cand TASRM [TAS Rights Management] will be pursuing appropriate remedies for that\u2026<\/p>\n \n \u201cIn one post,\u201d the filing goes on to say, \u201cplaintiff used an album cover logo, audio from the album title track, hashtags including #thelifeofashowgirl; #swifties; #ts12; and #taylornation, and discussed an official album release event. In addition to attempting to confuse consumers, plaintiff\u2019s commercial use of Ms. Swift\u2019s art constitutes clear infringement under federal law.\u201d<\/p>\n \n Flagg\u2019s lawsuit said the ongoing sales of Swift\u2019s album caused serious harm to her business efforts. \u201cEach additional sale compounds the confusion in the marketplace and further erodes [Wade\u2019s] ability to be recognized as the soul source of her\u00a0Confessions of a Showgirl\u00a0brand.\u201d Among the suit\u2019s contention is that her own site and posts have been pushed down in search results by Swift\u2019s ubiquitous branding.<\/p>\n \n In an interview with Rolling Stone following the initial filing of the lawsuit, Jaymie Parkkinen, an attorney for Flagg, said that his client \u201cspent more than a decade building\u00a0\u2018Confessions of a Showgirl.\u2019 She registered it. She earned it. When Taylor Swift\u2019s team applied to register\u00a0\u2018The Life of a Showgirl,\u2019 the Trademark Office refused,\u201d which he attributed to a conflict with Flagg\u2019s existing mark.<\/p>\n \n The brief from Swift\u2019s lawyers argues that, regardless of other factors, the pop star\u2019s album title is protected by the First Amendment. Her lawyers cite the cases of Rogers v. Grimaldi and Lost Int\u2019l, LLC v. Germanotta, the latter being a suit in which Lady Gaga was accused to appropriating her \u201cMayhem\u201d album title and logo by a surfboard company. Swift\u2019s team argues based on these cases that \u201cif a work is expressive, a plaintiff cannot establish infringement without showing the title (1) is either not artistically relevant to the underlying work; or (2) explicitly misleads as to the source or content of the work. This is because titles of expressive works \u2018implicate the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech\u2019 and \u2018consumers are less likely to mistake the use of someone else\u2019s mark in an expressive work for a sign of association, authorship, or endorsement.\u201d <\/em> Songs and album titles are the core type of expressive First Amendment work that Rogers protects.\u201d<\/p>\n \n The attorneys also argue that works with similar titles since Flagg obtained her trademark have come and gone without issue, including \u201cConfessions of a Goddess,\u201d \u201cConfessions of a Vegas Showgirl,\u201d \u201cPortrait of a Showgirl\u201d and \u201cThe Last Showgirl.\u201d <\/p>\n \n The brief was filed Wednesday by Max N. Wellman on behalf of himself and fellow attorneys J. Douglas Baldridge and Katherine Wright Morrone. They are representing Swift as well as her co-defendants TAS Rights Management, UMG Recordings and Bravado International Group Merchandising Services.<\/p>\n \n No trial date has been set.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Taylor Swift\u2018s attorneys have slapped back at a lawsuit filed by a former Las Vegas showgirl who claims that the pop superstar\u2019s \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d album title infringes on her trademark for the phrase \u201cConfessions of a Showgirl.\u201d The lawyers call the argument that there could be confusion between the services provided by … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Taylor-Swifts-Attorneys-Fire-Back-in-Trademark-Lawsuit-Over-Showgirl.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30103,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30101\/revisions\/30103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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