Ceremony of Roses, a company backed by Sony, has filed a lawsuit over counterfeit Benson Boone merchandise. The venture is seeking to stop bootleggers from selling unofficial merch outside venues on Boone’s American Heart tour, in support of his sophomore album of the same name.

Billboard reports that, on Thursday (Aug. 28), Ceremony of Roses — which partnered with Sony three years ago — filed a federal court lawsuit claiming that many anonymous counterfeiters are selling fake merch outside the arenas and, if the courts do not intervene, they will continue to.

“The infringing merchandise that defendants sell is generally of inferior quality,” the company’s lawyers, Mark Bradford and Cara Burns, wrote in their legal brief. “The sale of such merchandise has injured and is likely to injure

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