(NewsNation) — A Sony Music merchandise venture is suing to stop counterfeiters from selling knockoff Benson Boone items outside stops of his arena tour, including New York's Madison Square Garden.

The company Ceremony of Roses saidbootleggers have been active outside on the opening dates of Boone's "American Hearts Tour” selling fake merchandise.

“Individual bootleggers follow tours or arrange to have local individuals sell the infringing merchandise for them,” the company’s VP Alan Sitchon said in the lawsuit, according to Billboard.

He added, “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.”

In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New

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