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Within 12 hours of President Donald Trump tweeting a digitally altered meme inserting former Vice President Joe Biden into a 2005 Nickelback music video, Twitter disabled the content from playing "in response to a report by the copyright owner."
The 20-second video tweeted by Trump opened with a clip of Biden on the campaign trail saying he had never discussed business dealings with his son Hunter Biden.
The video then cut to the Nickelback video, wherein band frontman sings the lyrics "look at this photograph" and holds up a picture. The video Trump tweeted superimposed on that picture a photo from 2014 of Joe and Hunter Biden on a golf course with Hunter Biden's business associate.
While the tweet remained up as of Thursday late morning, the video was removed. In its place is a message from Twitter reading: "This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-nickelback-meme-twitter-copyright-violation/story?id=66032500
to Nickleback for fighting back.
underpants
(182,883 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,497 posts)By Derek Hawkins
Oct. 3, 2019 at 12:10 p.m. EDT
Citing a potential copyright violation, Twitter took down a meme tweeted by President Trump that used a parody of a music video by the rock band Nickelback to promote discredited corruption claims about former vice president Joe Biden.
Trump posted the video late Wednesday afternoon on the heels of a string of tweets attacking the impeachment inquiry by congressional Democrats. It featured a version of the video for Nicklebacks 2005 hit Photograph that had been edited to show lead singer Chad Kroeger holding up a picture of Biden and his son Hunter posing with an executive of Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings, where the younger Biden was a board member. The tweet caption read, LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH!
Within hours, Twitter received a takedown notice from Warner Music Group, the copyright owner for the original music video, according to documents posted to the Lumen Database, which tracks online copyright infringement complaints.
By Thursday morning, the video had been removed, replaced by a notice from Twitter saying it was pulled in response to a report from the copyright owner. But Trumps allies, including his son Donald Trump Jr. and White House social media director Dan Scavino, continued tweeting out their own versions of the meme Thursday morning in open defiance of Twitters action.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/03/trumps-tweets-are-unstoppable-except-when-it-comes-nickelback/
herding cats
(19,568 posts)At least Twitter was forced to take some form of action against Trump.
Ms. Toad
(34,092 posts)Unless a site wants to stick their neck on the line with the infringer, they have to take it down. If they leave it up after being given a take-down notice, they risk being sued (and liable) for Trump's infringement.
If Trump is bright enough, he will file a counter-notice, which will force Twitter to restore it, adn then Nickelback's only option is to sue Trump.
BumRushDaShow
(129,497 posts)and "destruction" of a (tweet) record....
Well.... you get my drift.
Ms. Toad
(34,092 posts)But once notified, Twitter cannot continue to host material that infringes copyright without jumping into Trump's infringement boat.
As to the presidental records act - the tweet is still there (for now) just the ability to play the infringing material is removed. And I'm pretty sure all of the tweets are archived for posterity.
dhill926
(16,358 posts)marble falls
(57,240 posts)Tree-Hugger
(3,370 posts)You can threaten a witness with harm via Tweet. It's totes fine.
You can incite civil war in a Tweet. Not a problem.
But.....if you attempt to send a tweet using video fron one of the lamest bands of the last 5 centuries? Oh no, that's going too fucking far, sir.
ffr
(22,671 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)Thank you.