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Minneapolis police abuse copyright law to censor their controversial
shoot-first recruiting video

boingboing.net/2016/07/13/minneapolis-police-abuse-copyr.html

Less than a week after an officer from a nearby force shot and
killed Philando Castile during a traffic stop, leaving him to
die in front of his child and girlfriend (and the world on
livestream) the Minneapolis Police Department has perjured
itself in issuing a copyright takedown notice to Youtube in
order to suppress a controversial recruiting video that
depicted the jobs of MPD officers as being a firearms-heavy
shoot-em-up. The video had attracted alarm and criticism by
officials and the public, who saw it as indicative of a deep
culture of violent, shoot-first policing in the Minneapolis
police. The MPD sent a copyright takedown notice to Youtube
claiming, on penalty of perjury, that it believed the video
was infringing. The video is clearly a fair use, directly
commenting on public affairs, not undermining any revenue
stream, and is itself a largely factual work — it was also a
work produced at public expense, which, in the USA generally
carries the presumption of free public re-use. The fact that
the work was reproduced in full does not disqualify it from
being a fair use, as a string of recent rulings in multiple
circuits has shown.