Netflix Sued for Using Vlogger’s Fyre Festival Footage in Film

Netflix Inc. infringed the copyright of a “social media personality and entrepreneur” by using his Fyre Festival footage in a documentary about the ill-fated event, a Sept. 3 complaint filed in the Central District of California says.

Austin Mills sued Netflix as well as “FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened” producers Jerry Media LLC, Exuma Films LLC, Matte Projects LLC, Library Films LLC, and Vice Media LLC for copyright infringement.

Mills attended Fyre Festival and recorded a video log of his time there, which he published on YouTube. Mills says the producers of Netflix’s Fyre documentary approached him to ...