Eric Church Gets Tough With T-Shirt Bootleggers — rollingstone.com

The opportunity to purchase a cheap — and likely cheaply made — tour t-shirt at Eric Church concerts just got a little more difficult. The CMA and ACM Award-winning artist was recently granted a temporary restraining order that allows for the seizure of counterfeit merchandise outside his shows. Church's legal team is pursuing a lawsuit against the makers and sellers of bootleg T-shirts and other Church-related memorabilia. With the names of the counterfeiters unknown, at least for now, the suit takes aim at "various John Does, various Jane Does and various XYZ corporations." In other words, they're going after those dudes who loiter in the parking lots before and after a show with entire clothing racks of Outsiders Tour shirts stuffed down their pants.

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