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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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