• girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    The threat was sent by IMG Worldwide, a giant entertainment and sports agency, on behalf of the Los Angeles Police Foundation, which is the name of a private foundation that the Los Angeles Times calls “the LAPD’s secretive, multimillion-dollar private funding arm.” The LAPF has purchased surveillance tech, robots, drones, and Palantir licenses for the LAPD.

    Yeah. They can gtfo with that shit.

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    4 months ago

    Wait, the LAPD is a government entity. They are funded with public taxpayer money.

    They cannot own a copyright or a trademark. It belongs to the public.

    EDIT: this is also why you can use NASA footage and audio recordings royalty free in your own works. Because you already paid for them.