I received a takedown notice from @Twitter for posting a short C-SPAN clip of a Trump rally in which an AC/DC song was played as warmup music before his speech. This seems like an unreasonable standard for this sort of thing.— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 16, 2020
This really how you want to play it, @TwitterSupport? pic.twitter.com/KVKzk2ioa8
I actually handled a case for the author of a popular song (popular long before I was born; the author was quite dismayed I'd never heard of his one-hit wonder), and the question of copyright. I'm no copyright expert, nor did I become one in that case. But I do know about waiver and loss. And if AC/DC allowed Rupar to run even a clip of their song on his Twitter feed, regardless of where he got it or why it was playing, they could lose all performance rights (at least) to the song, including royalties they are due everytime their recording is played for public (v. private) use.
Pretty much that simple. So either Twitter blocks such tweets, or they get sued for copyright infringement. What do you think Twitter is gonna do?
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