Isn't that video evidence that the police officer is violating the copyright?
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Police officer plays Taylor Swift song to keep a video off YouTube
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#82Maybe the officer will have a great YC application answer for the time he hacked a system.
Lots of people here upset with the officer’s tactic, but he didn’t interfere with any right to record. If anyone is at fault it is YouTube for preemptively taking down videos containing copyright that fall within the Fair Use Doctrine…of course that is YouTube’s legal right also, they don’t have to host anything.
If it were my video, and if it were actually important to share online for one reason or another, I would look at it like an opportunity to request a limited license from the copyright holder to post the video…then they would have a great YC application also.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be poetic justice of a kind, because I'll bet that they find a cop playing music for himself, even while interacting with others is probably not breaking copyright, whereas the person filming and publishing the situation probably is, i.e. an attempt to 'press' the police would end up more than likely just affirming the situation with a specific judicial ruling. It'd be interesting to see how a judge ruled ho…
He didn't play it for himself.
He played it in the normal way you play music, where others can hear it. He isn't responsible for the fact that it is being filmed and shown more widely.
That said, he should be fired for reasons that have nothing to do with copyright. It is an obnoxious attempt to avoid accountability.
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#84Do people not remember that you can post copyrighted music on youtube? it’s generally allowed. They just get any money from it.
Rights holders have automated the DMCA take down process on platforms like YouTube.
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#85Is there some kind of centralized review system for police departments in the US? I try to be cognizant of confirmation bias, but the amount of news I read about this particular force makes me think it's particularly bad even among US forces.
As a Canadian the most prominent in my memory is when the Alameda county sheriff's office outright lied about circumstances involving Masai Ujiri (president of the Toronto Raptors) and one of their deputies at the 2019 NBA Final.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masai_Ujiri#2019_NBA_Finals_in...
Re: Police officer plays Taylor Swift song to keep a video off YouTube
#86Re: Police officer plays Taylor Swift song to keep a video off YouTube
#8730 Rock was ahead of the curve on this one!
Some of the episode Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning[1] has the central characters singing an argument to each other to the tune of 'Uptown Girl' by Billy Joel, to stop a reality tv show that's following them from being able to air the footage, due to the copyright burden it would cause on them.
Of course reality is far more tragic.
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Righteous_Cowboy_Lig...
Re: Police officer plays Taylor Swift song to keep a video off YouTube
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be poetic justice of a kind, because I'll bet that they find a cop playing music for himself, even while interacting with others is probably not breaking copyright, whereas the person filming and publishing the situation probably is, i.e. an attempt to 'press' the police would end up more than likely just affirming the situation with a specific judicial ruling. It'd be interesting to see how a judge ruled ho…
He didn't play it for himself.
He was playing it for himself, and those in his immediate surrounding, and there's almost no chance that's going to be considered some kind of violation.
He's not making a public production or broadcasting either - the person doing the filming is doing that.
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#89IIRC, a while back that the MPAA was pushing for a law that would require video cameras to stop recording if they detected a specific trigger. The intent was to prevent people from filming in movie theaters, similar to the EURion watermarking constellation found on most bank notes. I can't imagine how things would have turned out if that technology had become standard and inevitably abused.
that more or less happened. all BD players required to implement audio fingerprinting
What is BD in this context?
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#90This sounds like a great ml app idea: Remove music from audio while keeping the other voices. I wonder how hard it would be to keep them separate.
Spleeter [1] does a really good job of it. It can separate out the vocals, accompaniment, drums, bass, and piano. It does a really phenomenal job at it, though there can be a bit of reverb in the vocals if there's a lot of reverb in the base. Splitting out individual vocalists is a lot harder, and I haven't found any pre-trained models that manage it. There's a lot of speaker separation [2] models, but they are trained on separate sentences overlapping.
[1] https://github.com/deezer/spleeter/releases [2] https://paperswithcode.com/task/speaker-separation