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

Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by filoleg on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:08PM (#26083034)

I think the idea is not to get hit with a "public performance" charge, but to have the video get automatically taken down on Youtube/Twitch/Instagram once it gets uploaded (due to the algorithm detecting copyright-infringing material).

And for that purpose, it doesn't matter whether it was a public performance or not. I can make a video of me sitting in a chair with a copyrighted song playing in the background, and it will get taken down. Hardly what I would call a "public performance".

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by jedberg on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:15PM (#26083122)

The point is people should turn around and try to nail the cops for illegal public performances.

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by postalrat on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:47PM (#26083525)

You can try. I'm sure the cops will just start playing songs by artists who approve of cops playing but don't approve of the songs appearing in the background of social media posts.

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by airhead969 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @06:30PM (#26083963)

Do the labels and/or RIAA police that over the objection or permission of the artists?

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by filoleg on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @08:00PM (#26084626)

Depends on who holds the rights. Whoever holds them decides on the permissions.

If the rights are held by a major label, then they don't care a single thing about the artist's permission. For example, a few years ago or so, Madeon's soundcloud account (a big EDM artists) got a bunch of his own songs removed due to the label being the one actually holding the rights. The artist himself was pretty pissed about this.

But if the rights are held by the artists or by a small independent label, then they get to give out the permission.

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by gowld on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @07:27PM (#26084404)

The point is that it's not a public performance just because someone recorded it in the background.

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by mgkimsal on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:25PM (#26083235)

thanks - came here to say the same thing. does the police department pay the appropriate BMI license to be able to blast out those tunes in public?

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