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Coachella orders MS Trust charity to change festival name

Coachella orders MS Trust charity to change festival name
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Image caption MS Trust says it was “devastated” it could not use the name “Couch-ella”

Lawyers for giant US arts and music festival Coachella have forced a UK charity to change the name of its online fundraising event “Couch-ella”.

MS Trust said lawyers for the US festival, held annually in the Californian desert, told it the “chella” suffix was trademarked.

The Hertfordshire charity said it was “devastated” but that its festival would go ahead with a different name.

Coachella has been contacted for comment.

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Image caption In 2019 some 250,000 people attended the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival

A spokeswoman for the MS Trust said organisers of Coachella were in touch on 23 July.

“We’ve had to change the name to ‘MS Trust Home Festival’,” she said.

“We are, of course, devastated by this, but the festival will still go ahead as planned.”

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Image caption The MS Trust event has been rebranded following the intervention of Coachella’s lawyers

Coachella is one of the world’s biggest music festivals, last year attracting 250,000 people over two weekends, but will not take place this year due to coronavirus.

MS Trust, based in Letchworth Garden City, supports anyone affected by multiple sclerosis, an incurable lifelong condition that affects the brain and spinal cord

Its online festival, which takes place on 22 August, will feature comedy, music, yoga, dance and arts for people to view from home.

Comedy character John Shuttleworth will perform and TV fitness star Mr Motivator will teach an exercise class.

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Image caption Rapper P Diddy has previously fallen foul of the festival’s lawyers

MS Trust’s chief executive David Martin said lawyers warned of “possible confusion” between the charity’s event and the US festival.

“They asked us to reconsider our name and see if there was something else we could use to avoid confusion,” Mr Martin said.

“Half of me thought ‘Shall we take them head-on?’ but in reality when lawyers get involved it costs a lot and we didn’t want to waste any of the charity’s money.”

He said the charity now had “something in common with P Diddy”, as the rapper – real name Sean Combs – had to change the name of an event he dubbed “Combschella” in 2018.


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