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California Police Turned on Music to Allegedly Trigger Instagram’s DCMA to Avoid Being Live-Streamed

Occurred
Feb 5, 2021
Published
Unknown
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

A police officer in Beverly Hills played copyrighted music on his phone when realizing that his interactions were being recorded on a livestream, allegedly hoping the Instagram's automated copyright detection system to end or mute the stream.

Developers

  • Instagram

Deployers

  • Instagram

Harmed parties

  • Sennett Devermont
  • Beverly Hills citizens

Classification

Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%

Rationale: Police officer used automated copyright detection to disrupt public recording of law enforcement activity.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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