Police under review for blasting Disney songs to keep videos off social media

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Source: The Washington Post/Julian Mark

The night's soundtrack started with "You've Got a Friend in Me" from "Toy Story," then moved to a more recent favorite, "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from "Encanto," before the sentimental "Reflection" from "Mulan."

It was around 11 p.m. on April 4 on a residential street in Santa Ana, Calif. - and the Disney songs blared from a police cruiser, according to a YouTube video and news reports. Police had been investigating a stolen vehicle, an officer explains in the video. But after "Un Poco Loco" from Disney's 2017 movie "Coco" started blasting through the neighborhood, residents began asking questions.

"What's the music for?" a woman can be heard asking in the video, explaining that she needed to sleep.

Seconds after the music appears to abruptly turn off, a Santa Ana city councilman, Johnathan Hernandez, also asked: "What's going on with the music here?"

Read more: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Police-under-review-for-blasting-Disney-songs-to-17074690.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight

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I suspect Disney will have something to say about this.

[ck4829]

1. Seems particularly Kafkaesque to have police authoritarianism come with a family-friendly soundtrack

[DarrenRollins]

2. Disney Is Corrupt

In the past couple years I have really seen Disney turning evil...

[kysrsoze]

3. This incident has absolutely nothing to do with Disney - it's the Santa Ana cops.

[FarPoint]

19. the poster understands.....

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[Initech]

35. Yeah the Santa Ana PD has a certain reputation around these parts.

And it's not a very good one.

[canuckledragger]

5. Sure Jan...

[Miguelito Loveless]

8. This is a increasingly used tactic

by the police to play copyrighted music to keep citizen made videos off Youtube. If the video is posted, it can be taken down due to copyright violation because of the music. Not a fan of Disney, but are you suggesting Disney is paying the police to blast out their songs?

[Initech]

36. Like I said there's literally an entire 30 Rock episode devoted to Tracy Jordan doing this.

He starts reciting his lines in the tone of Billy Joel's song "Uptown Girl" so that the copyright police will censor his parts and keep him off of his wife's reality show.

[BradAllison]

6. Enjoy your stay

[Beakybird]

7. Yes, but this is about cops using music that YouTube and TikTok algorithms identify as copyrighted.

This, so that videos of their misbehavior get booted from social media and hidden from the public.

[Martin68]

13. Darren, right wingers are all anti-Disney now because they Disney criticized Florida governor

DeSantis and his Republican legislature for passing anti-LGBTQ legislation in the form of a "Don't Say Gay" bill. This is not about Disney corruption, This ia about civil rights Disney is defending, and right wing attacks on Disney for doing that.

[Baked Potato]

15. Lol!

[Effete Snob]

25. Welcome to DU, Governor

[groundloop]

29. HA!!!!!!!!!

[mahina]

39. How so? Could you expand on that please?

I’m curious. Thank you.

And welcome to DU- today, wow! Great you are here.

[Hekate]

40. Sorry guy, but that's way off topic

[tenderfoot]

43. Okay Groomer

Tell us your thoughts on Tennessee legalizing child marriage.

[exboyfil]

4. Fortunately for the cop he recognized the councilman

or it would have even gone a whole lot worse for him if he elected to batter the "mouthy" Latino. You know that is a distinct possibility.

[Darwins_Retriever]

9. I expect the Disney music was used for copyright reasons

Disney is very protective of their property. If the video is played on the internet, the police probably contact Disney and Disney threatens the poster.

[summer_in_TX]

42. Yep. Our community radio station's manager and board president

used to work for the Disney company. He said that the saying is true, "Don't Mess With the Mouse!"

So the evidence of police mistreatment won't circulate with the copyrighted music. I suppose you could record behavior without sound and put it up, or add your own non-copyrighted music to give it a bit of a sound track. There are ways to work around that, but they're certainly a hassle.

[TheRickles]

10. The cop was playing copyrighted music in the hopes that any video of his car search would be pulled

YouTube won't host videos that infringe on copyright. Other PDs have tried this tactic with other kinds of music (Taylor Swift), so that bystanders who film their actions won't be able to post on social media. It has nothing to do with Disney, but it's a pretty shady tactic.

[Joinfortmill]

41. What assholes

[Claire Oh Nette]

11. A work around for social media audit channels

Cops are not doing anything different. People have cameras now. So do cops, although they're often conveniently turned off. Police know they're on film, and they don't want the public to see how they behave.

We really need to define what it is we need police for. My own encounters involve speeding tickets, and cops showing up after our house was burglarized twice when I was growing up. They never found either set of suspects, despite the fact I was at the police chief's house working on an English project with his daughter at the time.

Maybe the police should police better, so they're not fearful of social media posts.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

12. So, if you're pulled over and the cops start playing music, figure you're in for a beating.

[dogknob]

14. I live in Tustin bordering Santa Ana...

No, Disney is not involved in this shit. There are a lot of real TFG-loving scumbags in Santa Ana law enforcement. They do it to avoid being shown on YouTube.

[LizBeth]

16. Mute and film

[Merlot]

30. Seems like a no-brainer. I guess that's why cops think it will work.

[MenloParque]

17. These scumbags will use any tactic to hide transparency

The cops up here in NorCal have been blasting Ranchero and Tejano music so loud to drown out any video recording. If you are stopped by police and are recording with a smart phone they blast music from their PA. These public servants are so afraid of cameras it’s unreal. You are a PUBLIC SERVANT you have no expectation of privacy in your job capacity! They hate transparency! Us vs them mentality that gets innocent people shot every fucking day!

[Effete Snob]

18. This use by the police is, incidentally, a copyright violation

Absent a paid up license from Disney, they do not have the right to play it through their loudspeakers in the course of their work.

[Walleye]

20. That's exactly what I was thinking

Can’t really expect cops to know the law though can we

[Effete Snob]

21. Well...

It's also not as if Disney will go after them for it.

[Walleye]

22. Yep. I was thinking that too. Apparently a lot of people are above the law in this country

They should play happy birthday that’s copyrighted. And very annoying. The ice cream trucks play cartoon music

[Ligyron]

23. That is a good point.

Of course, they could just bounce around different artists music, so...

[Fiendish Thingy]

24. To clarify the headline...

Since it wasn’t explained in the OP, the cops blasted Disney music because, if someone posted videos of their activity online, it would be blocked for copyright violation.

(The video could be posted without audio, but that requires extra steps people often aren’t willing to take)

[gldstwmn]

26. There is a video of San Francisco police pulling over a driverless car

for not having its lights on. The car actually drives off to a safer spot and then puts its hazards on. The cop is so befuddled by all of this.

[Initech]

27. That's literally the same thing Tracy Jordan did to get out of his wife's reality show.

Also -

[Old Crank]

28. Do the police have to pay for the use of the songs

That they are using?
Disney could go after the Santa Ana police and collect damages for unauthorized use.
Wasn't Neil Young going after Trump's group for $25,000.

[GregariousGroundhog]

34. If Disney wanted to do the right thing, they could go after Santa Ana police

Disney could sue Santa Ana's police department and receive between $750 and $30,000 per song played, plus lawyer's fees and court costs.

[tishaLA]

31. The city councilman was amazing in this encounter

Pointed out that kids were sleeping and it's a working class area and people had to get up early in the morning. Then he asked the cop whether he lived in that area--nope, doesn't even live in Santa Ana, of curse. Cop apologizes to the councilman and the councilman says nope--apologize to the cop watcher doing the filming!

[markbark]

32. Disney Lawyers: How about bringing charges

against these PDs for unauthorized public broadcasts of copyrighted works under the DMCA?

....Oh, that's right, you only do that against day care facilities that want to pop in a DVD for the little darlings during the day.

[Old Crank]

38. It would be civil litigation

Not criminal charges.
But they could make Santa Ana sweat...

[The Jungle 1]

33. Fascist police do not want the public to hold them accountable.

You can bet the police will try and ban video of them

[Hassin Bin Sober]

37. Video:

[Omaha Steve]

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