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That's hilarious - the keystone cops suing him for "suffered humiliation, ridicule, mental distress, embarrassment, and loss of reputation." Gee, I wonder how
by bastard_op 4y ago
That's hilarious - the keystone cops suing him for "suffered humiliation, ridicule, mental distress, embarrassment, and loss of reputation."
Gee, I wonder how one might have felt in that being the one raided, all to have the charges dropped.
Exactly what is wrong with the US.
- Yajirobe 4y ago[flagged]
- NoZebra120vClip 4y agoI would say that Afroman was perhaps incautious to mix up videos of footage of police with their faces and insignia and whatnot. After all, Afroman's milieu is an industry that is perpetually in legal jeopardy for sampling, covering, and quoting other musical works. Then I thought about it for another hot minute, and realized that Afroman (and his legal counsel) may be just canny enough to take this all into account. Think of the optics of the cops suing this Black man trying to get at his honestly earned cash. Think of how that will play out in the public square. Who's a more sympathetic figure here, win or lose? There's no such thing as bad publicity! So I think Afroman may have counted on this whole lawsuit debacle and he's going to get enormous mileage and notoreity out of it. Kudos to him for this. I love these videos. This guy is da bomb. Hilarious.
- adgjlsfhk1 4y agoIt's pretty clearly fair use in the US.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoThe cops don't have a copyright claim. Fair use is irrelevant. Afroman owns a recording of factual events. He has the right to do with it as he pleases.
- throwaway290 4y agoIf I take a recognizable photo of you without you signing a model release and then I use it in a commercial work you can sue. Which the cops did in this case.
- duxup 4y agoI wonder how that works, I can photograph you in public, I can sell the photo. That’s legal.
- throwaway290 4y agoAre you a lawyer? It might be much less clear cut than you imply.
- duxup 4y agoIt might be more cut and dry than you imply.
- NoZebra120vClip 4y agohttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photographs_of_identifiable_people#United_States https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photographs_of_id...
- duxup 4y agoI can’t tell what you want to say from a link. Depending on how much of that you read of that article you could come to different conclusions.
- actionfromafar 4y agoSo, are you saying it's not clear cut...
- loeg 4y agoFair use? It's the man's own recording; he has copyright. He also has a right to record in his own home. The police should lose, but unfortunately Ohio lacks an anti-SLAPP law. (It will likely not be an expensive loss for the cops, and it will be an unnecessarily expensive victory for Afroman.)
- aperson_hello 4y agoOn the bright side in this situation, he's going to monetize the crap out of this. He'll end up ahead in the end unlike the vast majority of people that find themselves as a target of the police.
- __MatrixMan__ 4y agoAs a rapper, taking risks that make the police look like idiots is pretty much his job. I think he's doing it well and I hope he gets paid accordingly.
- anigbrowl 4y agoHey it's all public information. If they're ashamed of the job they do that's on them.
- rideontime 4y agoSorry for my ignorance, what does "da bomb" mean?
- MSFT_Edging 4y agoIts typically a way to describe someone who can be considered "Da man".
- rm_-rf_slash 4y agoA somewhat dated idiom to mean a thing is distinctively good.
- jredwards 4y agoWhat reputation?
- BLKNSLVR 4y agoYeah, I was thinking that Afroman has nothing to do with sullying whatever reputation they think they had. Afroman just filmed them doing it.
- autoexec 4y ago"You showing people what I did made them hate me, so I should be compensated for that!" is a really strange argument in general. I'd probably never have known about this incident at all if they hadn't tried to sue him for showing people their crimes.
- prmoustache 4y ago> That's hilarious - the keystone cops suing him for "suffered humiliation, ridicule, mental distress, embarrassment, and loss of reputation." Funnily, Afroman's video mostly showed us non identified cops being stupid. Now Shawn D. Cooley, Justin Cooley, Michael D. Estep, Shawn D. Grooms, Brian Newland, Randolph L. Walters, Jr., and Lisa Phillips made sure 8 billions people have access to their name and can find their home address at will. [1] Good job guys. If anything, the humiliation, ridicule, mental distress, loss of reputation and embarassment is self inflicted. [1] https://sciotovalleyguardian.com/2023/03/23/adams-co-deputies-file-suit-against-rapper-afroman-over-music-video/ https://sciotovalleyguardian.com/2023/03/23/adams-co-deputie...
- fundad 4y agoTBH acting this violent against the most vulnerable is why police are so revered in the US. There’s an appetite for lies about murders committed in daylight and on camera. And there’s appetite for news footage of police beating peaceful protestors.
- JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y agoI'd never thought about it from this angle, but I think you're right. The Cop Spectacle might be our substitute entertainment for the old public executions. We can't show [public enemy du jour] being torn apart by lions in the arena anymore, but we can show drug dealers and terrorists being gunned down by the thousands in pop TV shows. They worshipped gladiators, we worship cops.
- fundad 4y agoShows like that are known as Copaganda.