Beyoncé receives cease-and-desist for holding Las Vegas Sphere in ‘Cowboy Carter’ tour footage

Beyoncé has received a cease-and-desist letter from the owner of the Las Vegas Sphere over footage from her ‘Cowboy Carter’ tour.

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The futuristic venue opened in 2023 and has since hosted residencies from the likes of U2, Phish and The Eagles. It was also recently confirmed that a new Sphere venue will be constructed in Abu Dhabi.

Now, the owner is reportedly unhappy with a depiction of the venue included in Beyoncé’s ongoing ‘Cowboy Carter’ tour, which kicked off on Monday (April 28), and has sent the singer a cease-and-desist letter.

The footage in question appears during an interlude at the concert, and sees a giant version of Beyoncé – donning a red cowboy hat and matching leather cape – marching through Las Vegas in slow motion. She then arrives at the Sphere and bends down to pick it up, before looking at it inquisitively and tapping it. Afterwards, she walks away with the miniature venue in her hands.

Per Billboard, the letter, reportedly addressed to Beyoncé’s production company Parkwood Entertainment on behalf of Sphere Entertainment Group, asks that she stop using the footage, which they say is used “without permission” and is misleading to fans.

“It has recently come to SEG’s attention that a Cowboy Carter tour interlude video contains the unauthorized use of SEG’s intellectual property,” the letter reads.

ngl i think this was her making fun of the idea that she was gonna do a sphere residency… because she’s LITERALLY (and figuratively) so much bigger than the sphere that it wouldn’t hold an audience of her size Read More