An Officer Played a Taylor Swift Song to Keep His Recording Of | G3 News

An Officer Played a Taylor Swift Song to Keep His Recording Off YouTube Knowing It'd Face a Copyright Strike. Instead It Went Viral.

@G3News: When James Burch and several activists began filming a sheriff’s deputy during a confrontation on the Alameda County courthouse steps in Oakland, Calif., this week, the officer caught the group by surprise. He pulled out his phone and started blaring Taylor Swift’s 2014 hit single “Blank Space.”

Confused, Burch asked: “Are we having a dance party?”

After he and the other activists pressed the officer about what he was doing, the deputy—identified by local media as Sgt. David Shelby—said, “You can record all you want, I just know it can’t be posted on YouTube.”

He was referring to YouTube’s automated copyright system, which detects and removes unauthorized protected material—such as a popular song—from being uploaded to the Internet.

Independent streamers of protests, including yours truly at G3, are often filming a crowd oblivious to the nuance that even the faintest copyrighted music in the background could subject videos to being removed from YouTube.

Those streaming political demonstration often find themselves having to pause their stream and/or walk away from a source of copyrighted music at a protest to prevent copyright strike and their stream being removed.

For now, the only way to avoid these preventative techniques is to have crowds be aware of the issue and avoid playing copyright music altogether at political demonstrations so that the demonstrations can reach across the internet.
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