CeaseandDesist

Taylor Swift’s legal team has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Jack Sweeney over his @taylorswiftjets Instagram threads, warning the student is stalking and harassing the pop star by tracking her private jet travel. “This conduct poses an imminent threat to the safety and wellbeing of our client and must stop,” stated the letter from Washington-based law firm Venable posted to Reddit and obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. Sweeney’s Instagram posts aim to measure and record the carbon…

A filmmaker recently received a cease-and-desist letter from Coachella‘s parent company after editing together and posting a video of Frank Ocean‘s performance at the festival.Brian Kinnes — who compiled more than 100 videos of Ocean shared on social media by festivalgoers to create one patchwork quilt of a concert film — is speaking out after event promoter AEG threatened legal action against him. The 26-year-old film editor from New York has removed his Frankenstein creation from the internet since getting hit with the…

AEG issued a cease-and-desist to a Los Angeles-based filmmaker after he created and shared a video of Frank Ocean’s entire Coachella headlining set.Variety reports that Brian Kinnes—who didn’t go to the music festival—sifted through hundreds of YouTube clips from fellow fans in order to create the film of the singer’s divisive 80-minute set. After uploading the video to YouTube, Coachella parent company AEG ordered it be taken down over copyright claims. Kinnes then started sending it directly to fans via Dropbox and…

Sin City could soon say goodbye to Elvis-themed weddings.According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, a handful of wedding chapels have received cease-and-desist letters demanding they stop using the King’s name and likeness for unauthorized events. Authentic Brands Group (ABG), which owns the majority stake in Elvis Presley Enterprises, reportedly issued the letters back in May. The licensing company told the venues they were infringing on intellectual property rights by using Elvis’ image and voice without permission.“As…