'Blank Space' Singer Taylor Swift Allegedly Threatens Lawsuit Against Her Old Guitar Teacher for Tarnishing Her 'Famous Trademark'
Ronnie Cremer, the computer technician who claims to have taught Taylor Swift how to play the guitar, recently told the New York Daily News that Swift's management team has threatened to sue him for buying and publishing the domain name, itaughttaylorswift.com .
The New York Daily News reports that Cremer's website is intended to be a not-for-profit site. Cremer created it to simply tell his story about how he allegedly mentored Swift early on in her music career.
But on Feb. 6, Swift's team allegedly sent Cremer an email that threatened to sue him if he did not relinquish the domain name immediately.
In the email, Swift's management team, TAS Rights Management, LLC, writes that Cremer's domain name "incorporates the famous Taylor Swift trademark in its entirety and suggests TAS's sponsorship or endorsement of your website. The Domain Name and your use of the Domain Name are also highly likely to dilute, and to tarnish, the famous Taylor Swift trademark."
But even though Swift's team has threatened to sue Cremer, he tells the New York Daily News that he will not take down the site despite feeling bullied by Swift's team.
"I almost feel like they were trying to bully me a little bit," Cremer said. "I'm not giving back the domain name. I mean, Go Daddy sold it to me."
In addition to being bullied by Swift's team, Cremer also revealed that Swift's fans have bullied him as well.
"I got a lot of hate mail from Swift fans who just do not want to believe under any circumstances that Taylor lied to them," Cremer explained, adding: "That's she's just not capable. That her story, that she called a 'magical twist of fate' story, could ever not be the truth. And I just feel like if I keep getting the story that was told by you out there, and other bits, that the truth will finally come out, and she will have to acknowledge."
So far, Swift has yet to publicly respond to Cremer's claims.
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