{"id":536001,"date":"2015-03-12T21:53:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T03:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/?p=536001"},"modified":"2015-03-12T21:53:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T03:53:32","slug":"eric-church-files-federal-lawsuit-against-unlicensed-t-shirt-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/articles\/eric-church-files-federal-lawsuit-against-unlicensed-t-shirt-vendors\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Church Files Federal Lawsuit Against Unlicensed T-Shirt Vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tsm-clipoard-container\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theboot.com\/tags\/eric-church\/\">Eric Church<\/a> is taking legal action against unlicensed T-shirt vendors. He filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday (March 10) to put a halt on illegal vendors selling Church-branded merchandise outside of his concerts.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nashville\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/money\/industries\/music\/2015\/03\/11\/eric-church-sues-unlicensed-shirt-vendors\/70154622\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessean<\/a><\/em>, Church is seeking an injunction that would order the vendors \u2014 named as Jane and Jon Does \u2014 to stop selling the knockoff goods, which are similar to the properly-licensed shirts Church sells at his shows, but the quality is inferior. He is also seeking damages from the vendors.<\/p>\n<p>Church and his team have encountered several of these vendors before. They filed a <a href=\"http:\/\/theboot.com\/eric-church-lawsuit\/\">similar lawsuit<\/a> in 2012 that sought to put an end to the merch bootleggers, noting at the time, \u201cWithout a federal court order authorizing the seizure of infringing goods at and near \u2026 2012 tour concert locations, [Church] will lose innumerable and irrecoverable sums in merchandise sales and will suffer incalculable, irreparable damage to his reputation and goodwill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The singer\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/theboot.com\/eric-church-2015-outsiders-world-tour-dates\/\">2015 Outsiders World Tour<\/a> is certainly no stranger to this type of frowned-upon activity. Church and his manager, Fielding Logan, have applied aggressive anti-scalping measures for his shows, using a combination of paperless tickets, ticket limits and purchase order sweeps to combat scalpers and bots. He has vocally <a href=\"http:\/\/theboot.com\/eric-church-scalpers\/\">fought against ticket scalpers<\/a>, even going as far to cancel 1,000 tickets that scalpers had purchased, re-routing the tickets back into the hands of fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of acts just want to sell as many tickets as they can, and they don\u2019t care who they sell them to,\u201d he <a href=\"http:\/\/theboot.com\/eric-church-scalpers\/\">explains<\/a>. \u201cI want my fans to be the ones who buy tickets to my shows, and I want scalpers to back off. I can\u2019t stop ticket scalpers completely, but I can definitely make it harder for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Church is taking legal action against unlicensed T-shirt vendors. He filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday (March 10) to put a halt on illegal vendors selling Church-branded merchandise outside of his concerts. According to Nashville\u2019s\u00a0Tennessean, Church is seeking an injunction that would order the vendors \u2014 named as Jane and Jon Does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":536002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-536001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 00:19:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}