Coachella owner threatens legal action against filmmaker over Frank Ocean footage

[Teletubby 151,221]

Coachella parent company AEG is threatening legal action against a filmmaker who created a concert movie using found footage of Frank Ocean’s controversial April 16 set at the festival.

Brian Kinnes, who did not attend Coachella, stitched together about 150 videos uploaded by concertgoers to YouTube, Twitter, TikTok to make an unofficial film that accounts for the entirety of Ocean’s set, which spanned about 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Kinnes launched his film online Tuesday and, that same day, received a cease and desist order from entertainment company AEG, demanding that he “remove and destroy all audio and video content […] of musical performances from the Festival.”

Kinnes’ 2023 film was quickly taken off YouTube due to a report filed by third-party copyright holder Rico Management. But thanks to external links on Kinnes’ website directing to sites such as Google Drive, people were still able to watch and download the unofficial concert film for free.   (Those links have since been removed from Kinnes’ site, which now includes a disclaimer that the film is “currently unavailable to the public.”)

“I’m not concerned with any legal repercussions because I do not plan on making a single penny from it,” Kinnes told Variety in an interview 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.”

“I’m just combining what’s already publicly available,” Kinnes says of the film. “Essentially, [AEG’s] claims are pretty frivolous and almost completely baseless.”

Per AEG’s festival ticket terms, “No one may transmit, broadcast, or communicate any live audio or audiovisual images from the Event site without the Event producer’s prior written permission.” This means even posting to social media a 30-second video from Coachella could earn a copyright takedown order, but Kinnes did not attend the festival and therefore did not agree to AEG’s ticket terms.

 

[bionic 50,107]

absolutely pathetic

[ChicaSkas 23,337]

This is why we do what we do. History should be preserved by the eyes and ears of the public, and a corporation will not tell us we cannot document what we see. It is like the truth. Truth is an air bubble, even when pushed underwater, eventually the air bubble will rise and break through.

[Snorlax 6,162]

They want to pretend like his set never happened thats why

[ARTFAP 1,251]

internet is forever and the damage has been done.

 

just create a fake excuse to cover this up just like Selena's peformance at the AMA2019 and blame it to "panick attack" when miss thing sang off key the entire time.

[Cameltoe Chariot 15,270]

36 minutes ago, ChicaSkas said:

This is why we do what we do. History should be preserved by the eyes and ears of the public, and a corporation will not tell us we cannot document what we see. It is like the truth. Truth is an air bubble, even when pushed underwater, eventually the air bubble will rise and break through.

Say it louder for the people in the back 

Bootlegging is the life blood of media - I can't even imagine a world without an effort to preserve our history and culture 

[ChicaSkas 23,337]

20 minutes ago, Cameltoe Chariot said:

Say it louder for the people in the back 

Bootlegging is the life blood of media - I can't even imagine a world without an effort to preserve our history and culture 

 

The man is a king. I just read his interview with Variety:

“I’m not concerned with any legal repercussions because I do not plan on making a single penny from it,” Kinnes told Variety in an interview 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.”

Absolute legend. Every time I boot a show I think in this mindset. I am very happy that others are seeing this as truth. 

He even did a mass collection of fan footage, fans sent him in the concert footage and he melded it into something beautiful: