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Re:Multiple Beverly Hills PD officers now weaponizing copyri... by tehjoker on Friday February 12, 2021 @02:01PM (#26117189)
Police and corporations have a special relationship. The corporations sell things and concentrate wealth, the police prevent other people from breaking the rules and redistributing it. This is one reason why the right talks up respecting the police and the sanctity of private property.

Suffice it to say, corporations are happy when the police find ways to let them exercise additional power that doesn't directly threaten their interests. What do they care if there's a fun song going on in the background if it lets police rough people up at their behest?

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Re:Multiple Beverly Hills PD officers now weaponizing copyri... by tzs on Friday February 12, 2021 @04:34PM (#26118815)
Do police and Paul McCartney have a special relationship? He owns the copyright to one of the songs the police played.

(For those who remember that Michael Jackson bought the Beatles catalog a few years ago and are wondering how McCartney has the rights, Jackson later sold it to Sony. When the songs became old enough, McCartney attempted to use the recapture provision of the Copyright Act of 1976 [1], 17 USC 203 [2]. Sony fought this, but in mid-2017 they settled and the rights went back to McCartney).

[1] https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/recapturing-copyrights-a-...

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/203

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Re:Multiple Beverly Hills PD officers now weaponizing copyri... by tehjoker on Friday February 12, 2021 @09:42PM (#26120931)
The preferences of individuals are more idiosyncratic, but certainly a wealthy man like Mr. McCartney would have had many more experiences where the police or security protected him vs. commoners that are treated with suspicion.
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