{"id":1218662,"date":"2022-10-07T19:57:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T19:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/07\/coachella-files-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-against-afrochella\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T19:57:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T19:57:28","slug":"coachella-files-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-against-afrochella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/07\/coachella-files-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-against-afrochella\/","title":{"rendered":"Coachella files copyright infringement lawsuit against Afrochella"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The\u00a0Coachella Valley and Arts Festival\u00a0and its organizer, Goldenvoice, are\u00a0suing\u00a0Ghana\u2019s Afrochella for alleged trademark infringement.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit was filed in a California federal court on Wednesday, October 5.<\/p>\n

In the suit, Coachella and Goldenvoice claim that Afrochella is \u201cintentionally trading on the goodwill of [Coachella and Goldenvoice\u2019s] well-known COACHELLA and CHELLA festivals and trademarks by actively promoting music events in the United States and in Ghana using the confusingly similar mark \u2018AFROCHELLA\u2019 and by fraudulently attempting to register Plaintiffs\u2019 actual trademarks as their own.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coachella Festival, LLC and Goldenvoice, LLC\u00a0filed a similar lawsuit\u00a0last year against Live Nation Entertainment for contributory trademark infringement.<\/p>\n

The complaint was regarding an event organized and promoted by the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians called Coachella Day One 22.<\/p>\n

Coachella and Goldenvoice sued Live Nation Entertainment for selling tickets to the event, which allegedly infringed upon Coachella\u2019s trademarks. The lawsuit was\u00a0settled\u00a0earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Afrochella 2022 is scheduled to take place on December 28 and 29 at El Wak Stadium in Accra, Ghana.<\/p>\n

Artists on the bill include headliners Burna Boy and Stonebwoy, as well as Ayra Starr, Fireboy DML, Black Sherif, and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The\u00a0Coachella Valley and Arts Festival\u00a0and its organizer, Goldenvoice, are\u00a0suing\u00a0Ghana\u2019s Afrochella for alleged trademark infringement. The lawsuit was filed in a California federal court on Wednesday, October 5. In the suit, Coachella and Goldenvoice claim that Afrochella is \u201cintentionally trading on the goodwill of [Coachella and Goldenvoice\u2019s] well-known COACHELLA and CHELLA festivals and trademarks by actively […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1218665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13770,7575,16577,7384,25841,10841],"class_list":["post-1218662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-afrochella","tag-coachella","tag-copyright","tag-files","tag-infringement","tag-lawsuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}