Taylor Swift has another new thing to celebrate.
Now in her newlywed era, the pop superstar's concert film, “The Eras Tour: The Final Show,” earned five Emmy nominations on Wednesday. This includes nominations for variety specials (pre-recorded), sound mixing for a variety series or special, directing for a variety special, picture editing for variety programming, and technical direction and camera work for a special.
The nomination for variety special (pre-recorded) means that Swift herself is nominated as a performer and producer of the concert film, which showed the final performance of her record-breaking tour. This marks the “Life of a Showgirl” singer-songwriter’s second Emmy nomination. She previously won in 2015 in the Creative Achievement in Interactive Media – Original Interactive Program category, as executive producer of the AMEX mobile app Unstaged: Taylor Swift Experience.
The praise comes just five days after Swift married her boyfriend Travis Kelce in an extravagant (albeit secret) Manhattan affair at Madison Square Garden. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end has opened up about his failed attempt to give Swift his phone number (via a friendship bracelet) when he attended an Eras tour concert in 2023.
The Emmy nominations follow his latest legal victory. On Monday, a federal judge in Florida dismissed with prejudice a copyright lawsuit accusing Swift of plagiarizing a self-published poet.
In February 2025, Kimberly Marasco, representing herself, filed a lawsuit alleging that Swift copied “unique expressions,” such as short phrases and specific words from her poetry, into numerous songs, including “The Man,” “Down Bad,” “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart,” “Hoax,” “Guilty as Sin?” and “It's time to go.” A similar lawsuit Marasco filed against Swift and other named defendants was dismissed by the same judge last September.
Swift's lawyers called the lawsuit “absurd and legally baseless” in their filings. “For example, the concept of betrayal or the words 'fire' or 'love' cannot be owned by a single person, as the basic themes or words are not protected by copyright law,” reads the motion to dismiss filed by attorneys James Douglas Baldridge and Katherine Wright Morrone, who also represented co-defendants Republic Records and Universal Music Group.
In her order granting Swift and her record label's motion, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon agreed, reiterating that “the allegedly infringed material (basic ideas, themes, metaphors, single words, and short phrases) is not protected speech and cannot be infringed.”
Cannon mentioned that these allegedly plagiarized words and phrases included “tears,” “run,” “fire,” “rain,” “heaven,” “love,” “invisible,” “caged me,” “flesh and blood” and “it's time to go.”
Even if they were protected speech, “the works are not even substantially similar, a point that plaintiff effectively acknowledges by characterizing the alleged copy as 'paraphrase.'[s],' 'rephrase[s],' and copying with 'minor word substitutions,'” Cannon wrote.
But it looks like Swift hasn't completely escaped Marasco's copyright lawsuit. The Floridian poet has already filed an appeal.
