When President Trump posted a video on Twitter Monday, it had garnered about a million views in less than three hours, but by Tuesday it was gone.
What happened? Buzzfeed News reports:
BuzzFeed News has learned that Warner Bros. Pictures filed a copyright infringement complaint to have the video taken down because it uses part of the score from the studio’s 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises.
In a statement Tuesday night, Warner Bros. confirmed it was taking action over the video.
“The use of Warner Bros.’ score from The Dark Knight Rises in the campaign video was unauthorized,” a spokesperson said. “We are working through the appropriate legal channels to have it removed.”
On Tuesday night, attempts to watch the video in Trump’s tweet were met with a message saying it was no longer available “in response to a report by the copyright owner.”
The 2020 campaign video, set to the score from the "The Dark Knight Rises," was unavailable just hours after Trump posted it to Twitter. pic.twitter.com/W1ObFKIojD
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) April 10, 2019
What Was In the Video?
Trump is obviously gearing up for 2020, and the video he shared showed prominent Democrats — Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and even comedians like Rosie O’Donnell and Amy Schumer — paired with images of the president since he took office. Some of the Trump scenes included his meetings with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and other foreign heads of state.
The text in the video read: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they call you racist.”
There are no words spoken in the video. The viewer hears The Dark Night score along with the images until eventually, Trump raises his fist.
After the president shared the video, many began pointing out that it was copyrighted material.
“Warner Bros. is a subsidiary of WarnerMedia, which was recently acquired by AT&T after the Justice Department failed in its attempt to block the merger, one of Trump’s 2016 campaign promises,” Buzzfeed News notes.
“The White House did not respond to BuzzFeed News’ request for comment.”
JUST IN: Warner Bros. files copyright claim after Trump shares 2020 video set to music from "The Dark Knight" https://t.co/UoPuoDJWH9 pic.twitter.com/ny9Q5fNNce
— The Hill (@thehill) April 10, 2019
Why? If tRump wants to use the music then pay for it.
Censorship started a long time ago, if the left doesn’t want you to see something you won’t see it . I run into it every day. I can predict when it will happen.
Oprah did it, why can’t Republicans? All it takes is money and desire.
Play something appropriate from Public domain archives. They can stoff their music where the sun don’t shine.
All Americans should send twiter the ultra liberal/socialist’s/communist’s a message,leave our free speech alone.Immediately close all censoring twiter accounts.The message is this don’t try to squash our 1st amendment right’s to FREE SPEECH. if you want to do this go to Venezuela??
It will get a lot worse the closer to 2020.
Censorship is just starting wait a few months and you will be pissed.
Trump has to stop lying. Y? Because is base can’t figure out fact from fiction.
HAVE MORE KOOL AID … TURN ON YOUR C-OMPLETELY N-ONSENSE N-EWS ,, AND COLOR A PICTURE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE .. TRUMP WILL STILL BE YOUR PRESIDENT .. THE ONLY FACT I NEED IS HE PRAYS IN THE WHITE HOUSE .. INSTEAD OF KNEELING ON A PRAYER RUG , FACING THE EAST AND BOWING TO A PEDOPHILE PROPHETS IDEOLOGY .. I GUESS YOU ARE OK WITH THAT THOUGH … OHHHHHH AND YOU CAN KEEP YOUR DOCTOR , YOUR INSURANCE , AND IT WILL BE LESS EXPENSIVE ~~!! ALL LIES OBAMMY TOLD US ALL … THEN HE VIOLATED THE CONSTITUTION OVER 80 TIMES SO FOR … NOW HE IS GOING TO GITMO FOR TREASON ~!!
Just as you can’t figure out how to type complete words?
A little tweaking and the music could be “similar to but legally distinct from” the Dark Knight music and voila! You have the same video with the same feel. Use their own slimy tricks against them.
It looks like it is time to target them!
All we need to know and see is that we are getting more money in our paychecks, paying less to the IRS and we are still free individuals.
Kinda like trump haters. But unlike trump haters, his supporters can see what is said just to be said in sarcasm, what is lie, what is truth. Trump haters can never see the truth, or understand sarcasm. Just sayin.
Delete the music and put it up again Mr President.
AAAMEEENNN !!! ! !!! ASAP !!! :-)
True. We need our own channels of communication.
Social media giants are targeting conservative content for any reason they can think up!