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The video, which included music from the group
Linkin Park, disappeared from the president's Twitter feed late
Saturday with the notification: "This media has been disabled in
response to a report by the copyright owner."
Twitter removed the video, which Trump had retweeted from White
House social media director Dan Scavino, after it received a
Digital Millennium Copyright Act notice from Machine Shop
Entertainment, according to a notice posted on the Lumen
Database which collects requests for removal of online
materials.
Machine Shop is a management company owned by the rock band
Linkin Park, according to its LinkedIn page.
"We respond to valid copyright complaints sent to us by a
copyright owner or their authorized representatives," a Twitter
representative said in an email statement.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.
Twitter began challenging Trump's tweets in May and has
repeatedly clashed with him since. The social media company has
several times disabled or commented on tweets by the president
because of what it said were copyright complaints or violations
of a policy against threatening violence.
Twitter removed an image the president tweeted on June 30, which
included a picture of Trump, because of a complaint from the New
York Times, whose photographer had shot the image.
The company also put a tweet from the president behind a warning
label in late May, saying that he had violated its rules against
"glorifying violence" when he advocated that Minneapolis
authorities be tough in responding to protests over the death of
George Floyd.
(Reporting by Diane Bartz; Editing by William Mallard)
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