RAMROD 109,709 Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago Sony merch venture Ceremony of Roses has brought a lawsuit seeking to stop counterfeiters from selling knockoff Benson Boone goods outside the pop singer’s American Heart arena tour. The claims come less than a week after Boone began a world tour supporting his sophomore album American Heart, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 this summer. Ceremony of Roses is the official merch retailer for Boone’s 30-date U.S. leg, which opened Aug. 22 and runs through Oct. 11. Ceremony of Roses, which partnered with Sony via a strategic investment in 2022, claims in a Thursday (Aug. 28) federal court lawsuit that a hoard of anonymous bootleggers are already selling phony merch outside Boone’s tour stops and will continue to do so without court intervention. “The infringing merchandise that defendants sell is generally of inferior quality,” write the company’s lawyers, Mark Bradford and Cara Burns. “The sale of such merchandise has injured and is likely to injure the reputation of the artist which has developed by virtue of his public performances and the reputation of the plaintiff for high quality authorized tour merchandise.” Ceremony of Roses is seeking a legal injunction that would empower law enforcement to seize and impound counterfeit merch. The lawsuit includes a declaration from Ceremony of Roses’ touring vp Alan Sitchon, who says merch bootleggers have showed up for Boone’s shows this past week at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn; United Center in Chicago; Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio; and Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. “Individual bootleggers follow tours, or arrange to have local individuals sell the infringing merchandise for them,” writes Sitchon. “Many designs also have tour dates and venues on them, which also indicates that they will continue to go from venue to venue to sell their infringing merchandise.” Such lawsuits are common in the live music industry. Official merch retailers have previously obtained court injunctions against knockoff sellers at the tours of artists including Tate McRae, Harry Styles, Drake, Beyoncé, Post Malone, Billie Eilish and Justin Bieber. https://www.billboard.com/pro/benson-boone-merch-knockoffs-suit-american-heart-tour/ (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ✧*:･ﾟ dancin' until i'm dead (*´艸｀*) ♡♡♡ Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elsamars 1,167 Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago Good. Protect Benson Goone at all costs. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAMROD 109,709 Posted 19 hours ago Author Share Posted 19 hours ago Watch this will become more prevalent since the only way artists and labels making money now are through merch & tour revenues since streaming ruined their flow of income from music purchases. All of y'all digital artists who sells bootleg merch need to start thinking to lawyer up just in case tbh (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ✧*:･ﾟ dancin' until i'm dead (*´艸｀*) ♡♡♡ Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladle Ghoulash 25,374 Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago Broke ass behavior, I fear We have forgotten our public MANNERS 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
InTheCloset 20,148 Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago 35 minutes ago, elsamars said: Good. Protect Benson Goone at all costs. He can Goone with me all day. 37 minutes ago, RAMROD said: Ceremony of Roses Thats such a catchy name. I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plastic Flower 5,075 Posted 13 hours ago Share Posted 13 hours ago f Sony Drop it Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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