Coachella Film Has Frank Ocean Fan Threatened With Cease And Desist Order
AEG, the parent company of Coachella, is threatening legal action against a Frank Ocean fan after they created a short movie about the r&b artist’s set at the annual music festival.
According to Variety, Brandon Kinnes combined 150 videos uploaded to social media by concertgoers to create an unofficial film that runs around an hour and 20 minutes in length. After uploading the video online in April, AEG issued a cease and desist order requesting he “remove and destroy all audio and video content [...] of musical performances from the festival.”
“Anything short of full compliance with this demand will lead to the initiation of immediate formal legal action,” the letter reads.
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Kinnes told Variety that he’s a professional editor who wanted to make the film after learning that Ocean’s set would not be live-streamed by Coachella. He also was reportedly able to reroute viewers to external links after his original film was taken down.
“I’m not concerned with any legal repercussions because I do not plan on making a single penny from it,” he said to the outlet prior to receiving the cease and desist. “I will continue to upload it in places that [Ocean’s] legal team will not be able to find. I don’t know if I should tell that to a reporter… but it deserves to exist online.”
Certain tweets from Kinnes' profile and videos from his channels, however, were removed by the video editor. He says he still believes it’s too late to expect the creative film to be permanently erased.
“The video is going to be online forever,” Kinnes noted. “Hundreds of people were able to download it before everything got shut down, and those people are re-uploading it.”
On April 19, Frank Ocean announced he would not be performing at Coachella’s second weekend after reportedly suffering an ankle injury.
Frank Ocean’s performance on April 16 had notable issues that fans caught onto soon after he took the stage. Beginning his set just before 11 p.m. local time, he had to abruptly end the show at 12:20 a.m. due to curfew.
Ocean’s set was also not live-streamed on Coachella’s official YouTube channel, similar to artists like BLACKPINK and Bad Bunny.
