Beyonce Receives a Cease-And-Desist Letter Regarding Tour Images

Beyonce received a cease-and-desist letter requesting that she remove certain images from her “Cowboy Carter” tour.

James Dolan’s Sphere Entertainment Group filed a legal warning to the “Texas Hold ‘Em” hitmaker’s production business Parkwood Entertainment for using their Las Vegas Sphere venue without authorization.

The company took action after several fans shared video of Beyonce’s first performances in Los Angeles last week online. The video showed a gigantic image of the 43-year-old megastar walking through Las Vegas before she picked up a computer-generated image of the iconic venue and held it in her hands.

“Beyonce — many orders of magnitude larger than the Sphere venue — leans over, picks up the venue, and looms over it,” the letter, which the New York Post newspaper was able to access, said.

The company’s intellectual property rights were allegedly violated by Beyonce, according to Sphere, which “has resulted in significant speculation that Beyoncé will end her tour with a Sphere residency.”

“SEG was not consulted, and the prominent appearance and manipulation of SEG’s Sphere venue in the video is not authorized,” the letter continued.

The firm has given Beyonce, who has never gone to the location, until Monday, May 25, to cease using the images in her videos; if she doesn’t, it “reserves all rights to take further action as SEG deems appropriate without notice.”

The letter also directed Parkwood to “avoid using the Sphere venue in the video instantly — in addition to not using this imagery on any merchandise, promotional or marketing materials, or in tour movies.”

According to reports last year, the former member of Destiny’s Child had been negotiating a residency at the Sphere for months.

However, Beyonce’s insistence that the venue close for two weeks so she could practice caused negotiations to stall.

A “significant revenue hit” would result from the closure, according to sources who spoke to the New York Post at the time. The 20,000-seat facility was showing the immersive movie “Postcards from Earth” four times a day, with tickets starting at $104.

To produce her high-tech stage spectacle, Beyonce’s team reportedly sought about $10 million, which is about the same amount the Sphere paid U2 for their residency.

She reportedly proceeded to negotiate a potential residency of 100 gigs over four years with rivals MGM.

“We do not comment on any artists performing at Sphere except those who have been announced,” a Sphere representative stated at the time.