{"id":240504,"date":"2025-09-29T12:15:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=240504"},"modified":"2026-01-22T16:43:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:43:04","slug":"why-lawsuits-over-counterfeit-merch-are-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/why-lawsuits-over-counterfeit-merch-are-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Why lawsuits over counterfeit merch are on the rise."},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAttentive readers of MBW may have experienced a bit of deja vu rece<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><h3>Sorry, you have hit your monthly limit of MBW+ articles!<\/h3>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mbw-plus\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/login\/\">log in<\/a> to gain unlimited access to all analysis and data on Music Business Worldwide, plus other member benefits.\r\n\r\n<div class=\"mbw-plus__buttons\"><a class=\"buttons__subscribe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mbw-plus\/\">Subscribe<\/a>\r\n<a class=\"buttons__login\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/login\/\">Login<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s become easier than ever to make and sell counterfeit merchandise, while merch sales have become more important than ever to artists<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":240850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[134597,134598,130446,130580,134563],"class_list":["post-240504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","tag-counterfeit-merchandise","tag-knock-offs","tag-lawsuits","tag-mbw-explains","tag-trademark-infringement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240504"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241393,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240504\/revisions\/241393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}