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\n\tTwenty One Pilots have accused Temu of marketing and selling counterfeit merch in a new trademark infringement lawsuit filed against the China-based online retailer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThe suit, obtained by Rolling Stone<\/em>, is largely filled with screenshots of what appear to be listings on Temu for an array of allegedly fake Twenty One Pilots merch, such as posters, shirts, mugs, and socks. As the suit notes, some of the items available on Temu appear to be identical to items currently for sale on Twenty One Pilots\u2019 website. Others on Temu appear to contain images and other art associated with the band, such as the cover of their 2015 album, Blurryface<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tThe complaint alleges that Twenty One Pilots\u2019 trademarks \u201chave been damaged and put at risk by Temu\u2019s knowing and systematic marketing and sale of counterfeit versions,\u201d which they describe as \u201cconfusingly and\/or virtually identical to\u201d their own trademarked materials.<\/p>\n \n\tTemu did not immediately return Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n \n\tThe lawsuit opens with a pointed salvo at Temu, saying the retailer is \u201cwidely understood to be one of the most unethical companies operating in today\u2019s global marketplace. Its business practices are believed to pose great threats to individuals, marketplaces, and the environment.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tIt goes on to cite a complaint recently filed by the State of Nebraska, which alleges that Temu has \u201cflooded the United States with cheap products\u201d and \u201cfuels a whole host of other harms,\u201d including its alleged sale of copyright-protected materials.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\tTwenty One Pilots\u2019 lawyers called Temu a \u201cveritable swamp of infringing and otherwise illegal products,\u201d adding that it \u201cmanufactures and sells a myriad of items that are counterfeit or blatant copies of [Twenty One Pilots\u2019] artwork, trademarks, and intellectual property.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tCounterfeit merchandise has long been a problem for musicians, with suppliers and artists now contending with new school online retailers and old school bootleggers hawking wares outside of concerts. As Billboard<\/em> notes, merch suppliers for Benson Boone and Tate McRae recently filed separate lawsuits aiming to crack down on fake items sold outside their shows. And Jeff Gluck, the same attorney representing Twenty One Pilots, filed a similar infringement suit against Temu last month on behalf of the MF Doom estate.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Twenty One Pilots have accused Temu of marketing and selling counterfeit merch in a new trademark infringement lawsuit filed against the China-based online retailer.\u00a0 The suit, obtained by Rolling Stone, is largely filled with screenshots of what appear to be listings on Temu for an array of allegedly fake Twenty One Pilots merch, such as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[10075,2357,3289,12412,12411,2026,5035,12410],"class_list":{"0":"post-20170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-accuse","9":"tag-fake","10":"tag-lawsuit","11":"tag-merch","12":"tag-pilots","13":"tag-selling","14":"tag-temu","15":"tag-twenty"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n