His parents’ house appeared in the Taylor Swift documentary, Austrian loses privacy case against Disney

An Austrian man convicted of planning a foiled attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in 2024 has lost a privacy lawsuit against Disney. He had sued over the fact that his parents’ house appeared in the documentary series “Taylor Swift: The End of an Era”.

The man, identified as Beran A, was sentenced in May to 15 years in prison. He has been in custody since his arrest in August 2024.

An episode of the series, which first aired in December 2025, showed his parents’ house in a town an hour’s drive from Vienna for a few seconds, but did not mention his name.

“He does not live there. He has not lived there for two years,” Judge Nicole Baczak ruled, adding that there was no prospect of him living there again in the near future.

Baczak added that the fact that his name had been widely reported in the media was irrelevant and that home addresses generally do not merit the highest level of legal protection.

Beran A did not attend the one-hour trial. His lawyer Ulrike Zeller said he will appeal. The show is available for streaming in Europe on Disney+, but the segment showing the address was removed in May.

A lawyer for Disney, Georg Kresbach, told the court that Beran’s parents had each received 3,000 euros in compensation for the appearance of their house in the series under a separate settlement.