Current Events > cops are now playing copyrighted music to have videos of them taken down

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https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvxb94/is-this-beverly-hills-cop-playing-sublimes-santeria-to-avoid-being-livestreamed

Police officers in Beverly Hills have been playing music while being filmed, seemingly in an effort to trigger Instagrams copyright filters.

Last Friday, a man entered the Beverly Hills police department, only to be treated to a mini DJ set that could potentially get his Instagram account banned.

Sennett Devermont was at the department to file a form to obtain body camera footage from an incident in which he received a ticket he felt was unfair. Devermont also happens to be a well-known LA area activist, who regularly live-streams protests and interactions with the police to his more than 300,000 followers on Instagram.

So, he streamed this visit as welland thats when things got weird.

In a video posted on his Instagram account, we see a mostly cordial conversation between Devermont and BHPD Sgt. Billy Fair turn a corner when Fair becomes upset that Devermont is live-streaming the interaction, including showing work contact information for another officer. Fair asks how many people are watching, to which Devermont replies, Enough.

Fair then stops answering questions, pulls out his phone, and starts silently swiping aroundand thats when the ska music starts playing.

Fair boosts the volume, and continues staring at his phone. For nearly a full minute, Fair is silent, and only starts speaking after were a good way through Sublimes Santeria.

Based on whats visible in the video, Fair seems to be banking on Instagrams copyright algorithm detecting the music, and either ending the live stream outright or muting it.

Or, even if the algorithm does not detect the song immediately, someone for example, a disgruntled police officercould simply wait until a user posts an archive of the live video on their page, then file a complaint with Instagram that it contains copyrighted material.

Fair doesn't seem to be up-to-date on his social media copyright policies, however.

In May of last year, Instagram clarified its policies on including music in livestreams, and began to advise people to only use short clips of music, and to ensure that there is a "visual component" to videos"recorded audio should not be the primary purpose of the video," the company said. Instagram declined to comment on this specific video, however, a spokesperson told VICE News that "our restrictions take the following into consideration: how much of the total video contains recorded music, the total number of songs in the video, and the length of individual song(s) included in the video." Under that rubric, Devermont's video should be fine, since its just one song, and is purely incidental.

Also, for anyone who is familiar with Sublimes back catalogue, it seems unlikely that the bands rights holders would do Fair a solid and complain to Instagram.

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edit: should have added "try to" in the topic title

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ngl, it's pretty clever, if it ends up working for them.

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The cop should know that making music available for streaming without permission, is against the law.

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Lol clever clever

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laying down groovy tunes and crunchy jams to own the libs

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008Zulu posted...

The cop should know that making music available for streaming without permission, is against the law.

they're not the ones making the video.

if they see someone recording them, they play the music so services like Instagram might autoflag them, and remove the videos due to copyright infringement.

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Imagine concocting this scheme instead of, idk, not being a complete shit human being. Good job cops. Good job.
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g0ldie posted...

they're not the ones making the video.

if they see someone recording them, they play the music so services like Instagram might autoflag them, and remove the videos due to copyright infringement.

But they are the ones making the music available.

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playing music from your phone speaker to the surrounding public is something id expect from teenagers, not a damn cop...

if DJ Bacon Strips wants to drop mad beats, maybe he should consider changing his career.

Cops literally putting in more effort to be shitty people instead of helping the community.
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Fuck the police

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something something "sound of the police"
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Rowdy54 posted...

Imagine concocting this scheme instead of, idk, not being a complete shit human being. Good job cops. Good job.

This.

Blue_Inigo posted...

Fuck the police

And another anti-police saying that you can't say here.

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Rowdy54 posted...

Imagine concocting this scheme instead of, idk, not being a complete shit human being.

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was was that quote? oh yeah, "if you have nothing to fear you have nothing to hide"

wonder what the cops have to be fearful enough to hide...

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up

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more often than not you are allowed to photograph and record police when they are on duty so this just seems like jerk behavior to me.

although the story says this did happen at the police station not out in public so that might be considered a private work space, I don't know...

That is hilarious. I hope IG bans his account.

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Southernfatman posted...

And another anti-police saying that you can't say here.

Idk, a mod commented right after you and it's still there

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It's like it's just physically impossible for cops to not be absolute pieces of fucking shit

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Good
It's time that big data companies stop getting to shit all over humanity

This will hopefully enforce a change in zuckerberg's attempt at domination
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That's hilarious and also shitty.

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Easy.

Change copyright laws or have more protests.

This is great actually.

Tech cos and the music industry will have to take the L or they will look shitty.

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imagine getting your ass kicked while "can you feel the love tonight" is playing

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ModLogic posted...

imagine getting your ass kicked while "can you feel the love tonight" is playing

Its horrible, but I am admittedly laughing my ass off to the thought of cops adding a soundtrack to their crimes

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Should be a fireable and permanent black listing offense.

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good. we need to protect our boys in blue

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ModLogic posted...

imagine getting your ass kicked while "can you feel the love tonight" is playing

Or I shot the sheriff

I mean, it's a good idea. Can't fault good thinking

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Southernfatman posted...

And another anti-police saying that you can't say here.

Good, because that's a stupid saying.

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Rowdy54 posted...

Imagine concocting this scheme instead of, idk, not being a complete shit human being. Good job cops. Good job.

It's wild isn't it?

Sergeant Billy Bob: Wanna be a total piece of shit today? Beat people up, abuse their rights, break some ribs over a traffic violation, the usual?
Deputy Eugene: Well I dunno Billy. All the kids these days have instagram accounts and such. It's a real nuisance when it comes to being a piece of shit and getting away with it.
Sergeant Billy Bob: Hmm. well maybe we shouldn't anymore. Or, maybe we can look into the legal framework and game the system?
Deputy Eugene: That sounds like hard work Billy.
Sergeant Billy Bob: What it sounds like is you're not committed to the force, Eugene.
Deputy Eugene: You're right. We can make it work. Busting heads and popping shoulders stops for no one.


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Damn_Underscore posted...

This is great actually.

Tech cos and the music industry will have to take the L or they will look shitty.

This is one way (albeit roundabout) to stick it to IG and YT

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one more reason why intellectual property needs to be abolished

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Bad_Mojo posted...

I mean, it's a good idea. Can't fault good thinking

You can, when the perfectly reasonable and preferred alternative is to simply *not* be a fucking psychopath while serving the public.

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https://youtu.be/80Jr5Fi9iDA

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That's actually pretty funny, but this will definitely blow up in officer's faces if a lot of them start doing this.

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piggish behavior

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If they wanna do this, they gotta use Disney Music; but even then Disney would probably go after the officer because hes the one that did it.

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Impressive, most impressive

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They arent actually doing anything wrong. Playing music is a normal thing that people do.

It wasnt their intention, but they are showing how bad copyright law has gotten.

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Middle hope posted...

Lol clever clever

this

Damn_Underscore posted...

They arent actually doing anything wrong. Playing music is a normal thing that people do.

It wasnt their intention, but they are showing how bad copyright law has gotten.

That's true. I mean, we're already at the point where game developers have a setting to turn off copyrighted music, just so you can safely stream their game. It's kind of ridiculous how fast the copyright strikes happen.

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Muting the audio and enabling cc during copyrighted songs is pretty easy.

Nice try, cops. Slow but nice.

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shockthemonkey posted...

This is the dumbest post

look who posted it

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