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LegalZoom Offers Legal Support to Taylor Swift to Trademark Her Way Out of AI and Deepfake Swifts, Swiftly
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 29, 2026--LegalZoom (Nasdaq: LZ), America’s #1 online legal services company, today extended an open offer of free trademark legal services to Taylor Swift, who last week filed three trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office aimed at protecting her voice and likeness from unauthorized AI-generated content — including two never-before-tested "sound marks" registering the spoken phrases "Hey, it's Taylor Swift" and "Hey, it's Taylor."
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