{"id":1876661,"date":"2026-04-10T22:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1876661"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:27:20","slug":"bruce-springsteens-merch-partner-sues-to-stop-tour-knockoffs-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1876661","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen\u2019s Merch Partner Sues to Stop Tour Knockoffs in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tThe official merch supplier for Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band is pursuing a nationwide legal injunction to stop counterfeit sales during the Land of Hopes and Dreams American Tour \u2013 starting with the Boss\u2019 hometown show in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

\n\tLive Nation subsidiary Merch Traffic filed trademark infringement claims on Thursday (April 9) against a slew of anonymous bootleggers who\u2019ve been dogging the Land of Hopes and Dreams trek. Such legal actions are a common strategy for authorized merch suppliers to crack down on knockoffs outside tour venues, by arming off-duty police officers with judicial orders to halt sales and seize the infringing products.<\/p>\n

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    \n\tThe lawsuit, obtained by Billboard<\/em>, alleges that counterfeiters have been selling low-quality, underpriced knockoffs of official Springsteen t-shirts and hats outside arenas since opening night of the tour in Minneapolis on March 31. Merch Traffic is now suing in New Jersey federal court to get an injunction in effect for the famous Garden State native\u2019s April 20 show at Newark\u2019s Prudential Center.<\/p>\n

    \n\tMerch Traffic says this injunction should start with the New Jersey show, but it shouldn\u2019t end after that night. Rather, the company\u2019s lawyers want to keep seizing infringing merch through the end of Springsteen\u2019s nationwide tour in May.<\/p>\n

    \n\t\u201cWithout the proposed seizure order, plaintiff will be forced to file separate civil actions throughout the United States at an estimated expense of well over $375,000 in legal fees and costs, imposing a great burden upon both plaintiff and the judicial resources of the federal courts,\u201d reads the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

    \n\tA rep for Springsteen did not immediately return a request for comment on the matter on Friday (April 10).<\/p>\n

    \n\tMerch Traffic and other companies in its position frequently bring these types of legal actions to combat counterfeiters who crowd the parking lots during major artist tours. Injunctions were put in place for two prior Springsteen tours in 2016 and 2023, and similar lawsuits have been filed in the past year by the authorized merch sellers for Tate McRae, Dua Lipa and Benson Boone. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2270316113-e1775858210803.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard The official merch supplier for Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band is pursuing a nationwide legal injunction to stop counterfeit sales during the Land of Hopes and Dreams American Tour \u2013 starting with the Boss\u2019 hometown show in New Jersey. Live Nation subsidiary Merch Traffic filed trademark infringement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1876661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1876661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1876661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1876661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1876661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}