From Vice: Is This Beverly Hills Cop Playing Sublime’s ‘Santeria’ to Avoid Being Live-streamed?
From Vice:
Last Friday, a man entered the Beverly Hills police department, only to be treated to a mini DJ set that could potentially get his Instagram account banned.
Sennett Devermont was at the department to file a form to obtain body camera footage from an incident in which he received a ticket he felt was unfair. Devermont also happens to be a well-known LA area activist, who regularly live-streams protests and interactions with the police to his more than 300,000 followers on Instagram.
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In a video posted on his Instagram account, we see a mostly cordial conversation between Devermont and BHPD Sgt. Billy Fair turn a corner when Fair becomes upset that Devermont is live-streaming the interaction, including showing work contact information for another officer. Fair asks how many people are watching, to which Devermont replies, “Enough.”
Fair then stops answering questions, pulls out his phone, and starts silently swiping around—and that’s when the ska music starts playing.
(Featured image is “Parental Advisory” by Dani Latorre and is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 )
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Wouldn’t fair use cover this?Report
Fair use is practically irrelevant on most big platforms. The social networks are terrified of what old media can get the government to do to them, so they err very heavily on the side of removing anything that could resemble copyright violation.Report
Sure, but technically it’s still fair use.Report
It’s not done by hand (how could it be?), it’s done by algorithm.
My favorite one was this one by Seth Everman that had the sound automatically turned off because, of course, it sounded too much like the original (even though every sound was made by Seth Everman himself):
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He should have played Axel F.
(And Sublime had some rather acab-ish songs & lyrics for their era, and for white guys of any era.)
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