Warner Bros. Is Filing A Copyright Claim Over Trump's 2020 Video For Using The 'Dark Knight Rises' Score

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Warner Bros. Is Filing A Copyright Claim Over Trump's 2020 Video For Using The 'Dark Knight Rises' Score
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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, specifically the track 'Why Do We Fall.'

The roughly two-minute video juxtaposes brief shots of prominent Democrats — from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to comedians Rosie O'Donnell and Amy Schumer — against images of Trump from his first two years in office, including his meetings with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and Brazil's far right president Jair Bolsonaro.

Dramatic text exclaims"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they call you racist." There is no spoken dialogue — instead, a driving, dramatic score plays underneath everything, crescendoing just as Trump raises his fist into the air. After Trump posted the video on Tuesday afternoon, people quickly began pointing out that the music is from Hans Zimmer's score for

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