Warner Bros. suing Trump for using ‘Dark Knight Rises’ score

 US President Donald Trump on Tuesday posted a video on Twitter that appeared to be a part of his 2020 pre-election campaign. In less than three hours, it had already amassed over 1 million views, but late Tuesday night, the video was no longer available.The unauthorized use of a sound track from the ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ in a campaign video received a strong response from Warner Bros. It also featured the film’s title cards.Warner Bros. pictures filed a copyright infringement complaint and urged the video to be taken down because it used the part of the score from the studio’s 2012 film ‘The Dark Knight Rises.’In a statement on Tuesday night, Warner Bros. confirmed it was taking action over the video. “The use of Warner Bros,’ score from ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ in the campaign video was unauthorized,” a spokesperson said. “We are working through the appropriate legal channels to have it removed.”Be late Tuesday night the video in Trump’s tweet had been replaced by a message that is was no longer available ‘in response to a report by the copyright owner.”Trump shared the video, which contained the track 'Why Do We Fall' from Hans Zimmer’s score for the Batman film. The video showed the images of Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, juxtaposed with clips of the president.He captioned the tweet, “Make America Great Again,” in all-caps.After Trump posted the video on Twitter, people quickly began pointing out that the music is from Hans Zimmer’s score for the Batman movie.At the time of removal, the video had racked up more than 2.3 million views.

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