Beyoncé hit with a cease and desist notice from James Dolan for using an image of the Las Vegas Sphere for her Cowboy Carter tour visuals...
From The NY Post
Beyoncé got slapped with a cease-and-desist letter from attorneys for Madison Square Garden boss James Dolan — demanding that she ditch a video for her new global concert tour that depicts her picking up and toying with the Las Vegas Sphere, The Post has learned.
In a sharply worded letter to the diva’s production company Parkwood Entertainment, Kathleen McCarthy of the law firm King & Spalding, which represents Dolan’s Sphere Entertainment Group, accused the firm of prominently featuring and manipulating imagery of the Sphere without permission.
Several social media users who attended her initial set of concerts in Los Angeles last week posted clips showing the video which depicts a towering, hundreds-of-feet tall Beyoncé striding through the Las Vegas skyline.
“Beyoncé — many orders of magnitude larger than the Sphere venue — leans over, picks up the venue, and looms over it,” McCarthy wrote in the Thursday letter obtained by The Post.
Sphere accused Beyoncé, who has never visited the venue, of “impermissible use and violation” of the company’s intellectual property rights, which “has resulted in significant speculation that Beyoncé will end her tour with a Sphere residency.”
“SEG was never asked and the prominent appearance and manipulation of SEG’s Sphere venue in the video is unauthorized,” McCarthy wrote in the letter.
Sphere has given Beyoncé a Monday deadline to halt use of the imagery in her videos.
If the singer fails to comply, SEG said it “reserves all rights to take further action as SEG deems appropriate without notice.”
The company is likewise demanding that Parkwood “cease and desist from using the Sphere venue in the video immediately — in addition to refraining from using this imagery on any merchandise, promotional or marketing materials, or in tour movies.”
Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour kicked off in Inglewood, Calif. last week, with multiple dates at SoFi Stadium before heading to major cities including Chicago, Houston, New York and London.
Last night Beyonce replaced the sphere with Allegiant Stadium where she performed.
17 comments:
Say what
Oh well
I mean it was free promo, so their loss.
Stupid concept. How is she being depicted as bigger than a stadium but she can't fill one?
So instead of reaching out and trying to book her in the venue you rather sue.....dummies
9:03, 9:23 agree
a DEI at its best. Sorry B
. LOLO
ALWAYS STEALING ANOTHER PERSON’S CONCEPT!
@9:07 😂😂 she sure isn’t filling them. @10:02 stealing is her middle name. I see she hurried up and backed down to these people. She knows who to mess with
Peoplg Always crossing the line
Bey don’t care.
James Dolan is a prick. He's always trying to humble niggas and remind them of their place regardless of celebrity status (Charles Oakley, Spike Lee, etc).
Looks like folks are eating their words 'cause them stadiums are packed!!! How did they think the best entertainer in the world wouldn't sell out.
Packed house:https://x.com/ThePopTingz/status/1919261364008239154
Don't Let AI FOOL YOU ^
Why does it matter anyways rather they’re packed or not. We’re not making the money from these shows. Just saying
Replace it with a crystal ball, a disco ball, or a snow globe and call it a day.
U should know, 1002
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