Bad Bunny Sues Fan For Uploading Concert Footage on YouTube
Bad Bunny is seeking an injunction to prevent Garrone from posting more footage and requests either a flat $150,000 per video or compensation for actual damages caused by the recordings.
At publishing time, the only Bad Bunny videos left on Garrone’s YouTube page include an orchestra intro, an interlude, and a five-minute “encore” video where the rapper talks to fans. Garrone’s channel also features footage from recent concerts by Rauw Alejandro, Rosalía, The Weeknd, Blackpink, and Beyoncé.
The situation echoes an incident involving Frank Ocean and his infamous 2023 Coachella festival set.
According to Variety, Brian Kinnes—a Los Angeles-based filmmaker who did not attend Coachella that year—created and shared a video of Frank Ocean’s complete 80-minute set after piecing together hundreds of YouTube clips.
Complex’s Tara Mahadevan reported that after Kinnes uploaded the concert video to YouTube, Coachella’s parent company AEG ordered it to be taken down via copyright claims. The cease-and-desist came shortly after Kinnes distributed the video directly to fans via Dropbox and Google Drive.