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More issues related to the contentious Frank Ocean headlining set at Coachella are arising. On Saturday (April 29), Variety reported that filmmaker Brian Kinnes has been threatened with legal action after using fan-shot footage of Ocean’s April 16 show. Making an unauthorized 80-minute video, Kinnes made a multi-cut film using 150 videos from YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter of the singer-songwriter’s Coachella appearance.
Kinnes, who released the video on April 25, was slapped with a cease-and-desist order from entertainment company AEG, to “remove and destroy all audio and video content […] of musical performances from the Festival.”
AEG, which is Coachella’s parent company and also owns festival promoter Goldenvoice, wrote: “Anything short of full compliance with this demand will lead to the initiation of immediate formal legal action.”
Kinnes, a 26-year-old lead editor at Simone Films opted to make the video compilation after it was announced that Ocean’s set would not be livestreamed on Coachella’s YouTube account. In 2017, Kinnes made a similar project using footage recorded at Ocean’s FYF Fest set.
Kinnes’ Coachella video was originally available on YouTube before being scrubbed from the website due to a report from third-party copyright holder Rico Management. However, an external link from Kinnes’ website allowed Ocean fans to view the unofficial concert film for free via Google Drive and Dropbox, but the links have since been removed.
\u201cfree the rebuild cut\u201d— brian (@brian) 1682787626
“I’m not concerned with any legal repercussions because I do not plan on making a single penny from it,” Kinnes told Variety prior to getting 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.” Later, Kinnes was seemingly offended by the legal action, calling AEG’s claims “frivolous and almost completely baseless.”
