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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by willcipriano on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:49PM (#26083548)
Wouldn't you have to be a party to the infringing work for that to be true? Presumably you can sue the copyright holder of the film and not the "actors" as it were?

For example, if a romcom rips off some music I created can I sue Ben Affleck because he appeared in it? I doubt it. I especially doubt it if he didn't want to be in the film.

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by vidarh on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:57AM (#26086943)
There are two separate potential copyright issues here: The public performance, and the recording. The cop was the one responsible for the public performance.
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