Kimberly Marasco, a self-represented Florida poet, has filed a notice of appeal in an attempt to revive her copyright lawsuit against Taylor Swift, lodging it on Tuesday 7 July, less than 48 hours after a federal judge dismissed the case with prejudice. The dismissal, issued on Monday 6 July by US District Judge Aileen Cannon, ended the second of two suits Marasco had brought over Swift's lyrics, and the swift appeal signals her intention to keep fighting despite the case being barred from being refiled.

Cannon ruled that the resemblances Marasco identified — common metaphors, short phrases and everyday concepts such as gaslighting — were not the kind of material copyright protects, describing them as "quintessential themes, concepts, and isolated words". Marasco first sued Swift's company in May 2024 over songs including The Man and My Tears Ricochet, a case dismissed in September 2025; her second complaint, filed in February 2025, initially sought at least USD $25 million and named Universal Music Group, Republic Records and collaborators Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner. Her filings mapped individual poems onto songs across five albums, and Billboard notes such appeals face long odds, particularly where a trial court has ruled that the flaws are unfixable.