{"id":708439,"date":"2026-07-24T07:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708439\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T07:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:27:08","slug":"west-berkshire-council-removes-video-over-justin-bieber-copyright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708439\/","title":{"rendered":"West Berkshire Council removes video over Justin Bieber copyright"},"content":{"rendered":"

A council has removed a promotional video from its newsletter, which featured a Justin Bieber track, following a copyright warning.<\/p>\n

West Berkshire Council pulled the material after a member of the public suggested the authority did not have the rights to use it.<\/p>\n

Ben Holden-Crowther raised the official TikTok account post as part of public questions at full council.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the council, said: “West Berkshire Council takes copyright and intellectual property matters seriously and seeks to ensure that content is created and shared in accordance with the relevant legal and platform requirements.”<\/p>\n

According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, external<\/a>, violating copyright can lead to a hefty fine ranging from standard statutory damages of hundreds of thousands of pounds per song, up to multi-million dollar lawsuits for major commercial plagiarism.<\/p>\n

The council’s post, promoting its own newsletter had used a Justin Bieber track and video, with the tag line ‘If Justin loves it, then you will too’.<\/p>\n

“As a matter of good practice, we’ve removed the video whilst we review the issue which has been raised,” it said.<\/p>\n

“The council does not routinely purchase licences for commercial music.<\/p>\n

“Our only regular spend is an annual subscription to a royalty-free music library, which costs less than \u00a3300 per year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A council has removed a promotional video from its newsletter, which featured a Justin Bieber track, following a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-708439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}