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Re:Police officer plays Taylor Swift song to keep a video of... by dragonwriter on Thursday July 01, 2021 @05:01PM (#27704815)
> Courts would never in a million years call this a copyright violation. If it was, anyone walking down the street playing music would be violating copyright.

Because purpose is an element of Fair Use analysis, and because fair use is an exception to copyright, and because the purpose differs radically between the two cases, there are a whole lot of other assumptions you need to make for this “if...then...” statement to hold.

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