Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters

Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by Wistar on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:25PM (#26083243)

But do the police have the proper BMI/ASCAP license for public performance?

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by eftychis on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:49PM (#26083540)

Will be interesting if they pick the wrong company and get sued for that in the process.

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by sneak on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:34AM (#26086809)

Large businesses do not generally seek to enforce their rights against the police as the police are responsible for breaking the law to keep those businesses humming away.

Indeed, many businesses large and small give free goods and services to the police for exactly this reason.

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:57AM (#26087672)

*Laughs manically in UK*.

In UK playing commercial radio at work is a breach of copyright if anyone else can hear. Police departments were notably targeted by copyright associations.

They similarly targeted people like solo garage mechanics: they work alone with commercial radio playing in their private workshop ... but if a customer comes up then they're technically breaching public broadcast provisions. So, you find solo workers and send a copyright association enforcer to see them ... if they can hear a radio (or other music, even on a properly licensed TV) from a publicly accessible area then they can successfully sue!

I used to work in a shop, the copyright people would ring, there'd be 10s of silence on the line presumably as they try and catch us listening to music. We used CC0 and other similar music but the repeated suggestions 'you have to have a license to play any music' made us fear being sued, so we stopped.

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by 1-6 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @04:58PM (#26082907)

Time for a technology company to come in to create a service that emits some form of A/V and trigger DRM enforcement procedures. Imagine when sporting events start to implement this to jam social media sharing.

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by imtyler on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:25PM (#26083246)

Apple patented a system to do this in 2016[1] but has yet to implement it afaik.

[1]https://m.dpreview.com/news/0190365065/apple-patents-system-...

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by Deestan on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @06:11AM (#26087765)

This is one of infinitely many ways to act without responsibility and obstruct justice for police brutality victims.

It should not be praised.

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by austincheney on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @07:14AM (#26088184)

The article indicated no such thing.

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by lhorie on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:32PM (#26083328)

So what happens if the person filming starts playing a different song? I don't imagine the filter would be smart enough to make out the two different songs playing at the same time?

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by account-5 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @02:01AM (#26086346)

I'm glad someone said it this is genius if that was the intent.

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by wtallis on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @07:30PM (#26084424)

Do you mean that law enforcement can get away with breaking the law, or do you mean that the law permits law enforcement to break the law? Either way, your comment seems overbroad and comes across as uselessly snarky.

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by bitwize on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:54AM (#26089909)

The law permits law enforcement to break laws (e.g., buying or selling drugs) if it serves a legitimate law enforcement purpose. Breaking copyright law would almost certainly be covered.

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by 23iofj on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @11:34AM (#26091334)

> if it serves a legitimate law enforcement purpose

What legitimate law enforcement purpose is being served here?

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