{"id":846023,"date":"2025-05-05T17:12:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T22:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/beyonce-hit-with-a-cease-and-desist-letter-over-a-video-showing-her-lifting-up-the-las-vegas-sphere-seriously\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T17:12:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T22:12:46","slug":"beyonce-hit-with-a-cease-and-desist-letter-over-a-video-showing-her-lifting-up-the-las-vegas-sphere-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/beyonce-hit-with-a-cease-and-desist-letter-over-a-video-showing-her-lifting-up-the-las-vegas-sphere-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyonc\u00e9 Hit With a Cease-and-Desist Letter Over a Video Showing Her Lifting Up the Las Vegas Sphere (Seriously)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment <\/p>\n<div id=\"cb-content\" role=\"main\">\n<article id=\"post-320094\" role=\"article\">\n<section itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_320095\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-320095\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/beyonce-hit-with-cease-and-desist-from-james-dolan-over-sphere-footage-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Entertainment Beyonce cease and desist over Sphere advertising\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\"  ><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-320095\">Photo Credit: Beyonc\u00e9 by Billy Briggs \/ CC by 2.0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Entertainment Beyonc\u00e9 was sent a cease-and-desist letter from James Dolan\u2019s lawyers over a video at her new show depicting her picking up the Las Vegas Sphere.<\/h2>\n<p>Madison Square Garden and Las Vegas Sphere boss James Dolan is not interested in sharing his toys. That was made clear when his lawyers hit Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s Parkwood Entertainment with a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/02\/business\/beyonce-gets-cease-and-desist-letter-from-james-dolans-lawyers-over-video-that-depicts-her-picking-up-sphere\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">cease-and-desist letter<\/a> over a video shown at her Cowboy Carter concert. The video depicts a giant Beyonc\u00e9 striding through the Las Vegas skyline before leaning over and picking up the Sphere.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-yOBb5oWNLc\" width=\"315\" height=\"560\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>According to the letter, penned by Kathleen McCarthy of King &#038; Spalding, which represents Dolan\u2019s Sphere Entertainment Group (SEG), Beyonc\u00e9 violated the company\u2019s intellectual property rights. This, they assert, has \u201cresulted in significant speculation that Beyonc\u00e9 will end her tour with a Sphere residency.\u201d<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cBeyonc\u00e9\u2014many orders of magnitude larger than the Sphere venue\u2014leans over, picks up the venue, and looms over it,\u201d wrote McCarthy. \u201cSEG was never asked and the prominent appearance and manipulation of SEG\u2019s Sphere venue in the video is unauthorized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The superstar was given a deadline of Monday discontinue use of the imagery in her videos, \u201cin addition to refraining from using this imagery on any merchandise, promotional or marketing materials, or in tour movies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Any plans Beyonc\u00e9 had for a residency at the Sphere collapsed last year after it was reported the venue refused her request to shut down for two weeks of rehearsals. Her team also sought around $10 million for a high-tech production similar to that of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/2024\/03\/14\/u2-wraps-up-40-date-sphere-run\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"follow\">U2\u2019s Sphere residency<\/a>, which evidently further complicated things. As a result, she was said to be exploring a potential 100-show deal with Sphere rival MGM.<\/p>\n<p>Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s Cowboy Carter tour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/2025\/04\/29\/beyonce-sofi-stadium-tickets\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"follow\">kicked off last week<\/a> in Inglewood, California, with several dates at SoFi Stadium before heading to Chicago, Houston, New York, London, and more. Failure to comply, SEG said, will result in the company taking further action as they deem appropriate, \u201cwithout notice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/2025\/05\/04\/beyonce-cease-and-desist-las-vegas-sphere\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Rubi Damron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Credit: Beyonc\u00e9 by Billy Briggs \/ CC by 2.0 Beyonc\u00e9 was sent a cease-and-desist letter from James Dolan\u2019s lawyers over a video at her new show depicting her picking up the Las Vegas Sphere. Madison Square Garden and Las Vegas Sphere boss James Dolan is not interested in sharing his toys. That was made<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":846024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2162,143631,1798],"tags":[11136,143630],"class_list":{"0":"post-846023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beyonce","8":"category-cease-and-desist","9":"category-entertainment","10":"tag-beyonce","11":"tag-cease-and-desist"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}