Beyonce just received a cease-and-desist letter.
This comes after a new video of the Cowboy Carter Tour was uploaded where a footage can be seen because of which the Single Ladies hitmaker has landed in hot waters.
In the video Beyonce is shown as a giant, towering figure striding over the Las Vegas skyline before picking up and playing with the Sphere concert venue.
Legal representative of Sphere Entertainment Group (SEG), Kathleen McCarthy, accused Beyoncé’s production company Parkwood Entertainment of manipulating and using pictures of the venue without permission.
As per the New York Post, she wrote in the cease-and-desist letter, “Beyoncé – many orders of magnitude larger than the Sphere venue – leans over, picks up the venue, and looms over it.”
“SEG was never asked and the prominent appearance and manipulation of SEG’s Sphere venue in the video is unauthorized,” she further mentioned, further accusing them of “impermissible use and violation” of the company’s intellectual property rights.
McCarthy even claimed that the video had created stir and “significant speculation” that the tour will end with a residency at the venue.
The lawyer has demanded 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.”
Given if Parkwood fails to comply with SEG’S legal team’s demands, they would be pursuing further action.
