Twitter removes Trump's video with the music of The Dark Knight Rises

Twitter late Tuesday night removed a video official account of President Donald Trump because it contained music from Warner Bros. Pictures The black knight gets up, the latest film from Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. According to both The hill BuzzFeed News, the producers of the short clip did not get the license to use the song, which brought Warner Bros. to file a claim for copyright infringement. Twitter then deleted the video hours later for violating its policies on copyrighted material.

The video, a strange promotional medium that some speculation is intended to create a hype for Trump's 2020 bid for re-election, contains a modified quote, widely attributed to Mahatma Ghandi, beginning with: "They ignore you from on board. Then they make fun of you. "The team behind the Trump video – we do not know who produced the two-minute clip – changed the next line of" so they fight you "to" then they call you racist ".

The video is designed to remind viewers that Trump was an underdog in 2016, but it has for some reason clips from actresses Rosie O Donnell and Amy Schumer, as well as from North Korea's chief, interspersed with music videos Trump during various rallies and public meetings at the White House and elsewhere. What is even stranger is that everything is set to "Why Do We Fall?" From Hans Zimmer, 11th piece of The black knight gets up soundtrack. Warner Bros. did not respond to a request for comment.

Twitter has not responded to a request for comment.

The pullout is notable as it seems to be only the second time that Twitter has launched an official action against Trump on the platform, despite numerous apparent violations of its policy on harbadment, threats of violence and other content rules. Trump has regularly flouted Twitter's rules with almost no impact, with Twitter claiming that the president's tweets are inherently worthy of interest and are therefore protected by ambiguous exemptions.

"Elected world leaders play a crucial role in this conversation because of their disproportionate impact on our society," the company said in a blog post published in January 2018. "Blocking a global Twitter leader or removing its controversial tweets would mask important information. people should be able to see and debate. It would not silence that leader, but it would certainly hinder the necessary discussion around their words and actions. It was after Trump threatened to wage a nuclear war against North Korea during a series of growing tensions between US and North Korean leaders Kim Jong. -UN.

An area of ​​this type where exemptions are not allowed would seem to be the author's right. Once, Twitter had already removed a video from its official Trump account containing music protected by REM group copyright, which challenged the use of the song "Everybody Hurts" in a video posted directly on the social media platform. The video is no longer available, but Trump's tweet remains live.