Sony’s merchandise arm, Ceremony of Roses, has filed a lawsuit to stop bootleggers from selling fake Dua Lipa merchandise during her Radical Optimism Tour.
The suit targets a group of unnamed counterfeiters accused of violating federal trademark law by selling knockoff T-shirts and other items outside concert venues.
“The tour has just begun, and so have defendants’ infringing activities,” said Ceremony of Roses’ lawyers, Bradford and Burns. They argued that the counterfeit gear is often “of inferior quality” and could damage both Dua Lipa’s reputation and that of the company’s official tour merchandise.
Ceremony of Roses is seeking a court order allowing it to seize and impound the fake goods throughout the US leg of the tour, which wraps up on October 16 in Seattle.
The filing is part of a broader crackdown: Bradford and Burns have filed a string of nearly identical anti-counterfeiting suits in recent months, including cases on behalf of Ceremony of Roses and Live Nation subsidiary Merch.
