Twitter disables Trump's tweet over copyright violation
Twitter Inc disabled a campaign-style video that President Donald Trump retweeted on Saturday, citing a copyright complaint.
The video, including music from the group Linkin Park, disappeared from the president’s Twitter feed late Saturday with the notification: “This media has been disabled in response to a written report by the copyright owner.”
Twitter removed the video, which Trump had retweeted from White House social media director Dan Scavino, after it received an electronic Millennium Copyright Act notice from Machine Shop Entertainment, according to a notice posted on the Lumen Database which collects requests for removal of online materials.
Machine Shop is a management company owned by the rock-band Linkin Park, according to its LinkedIn page.
“We react to valid copyright complaints delivered to us by a copyright owner or their authorized representatives,” a Twitter representative said within an email statement.
The White House did not immediately react to a obtain comment.
Twitter commenced challenging Trump’s tweets in-may and has repeatedly clashed with him since. The social media company has many times disabled or commented on tweets by the president as a result of what it said were copyright complaints or violations of an insurance plan against threatening violence.
Twitter removed an image the president tweeted on June 30, including a picture of Trump, as a result of a complaint from the brand new York Times, whose photographer had shot the image.
The business also put a tweet from the president behind a warning label in late May, saying that he had violated its rules against “glorifying violence” when he advocated that Minneapolis authorities be tough in giving an answer to protests over the death of George Floyd.
Source: www.deccanchronicle.com
