Twitter removed Trump’s tweet using Batman music due to copyright

President Trump has had a video removed from Twitter because it unlawfully used the music from a Batman film.

The two-minute promotional video for his 2020 campaign used Hans Zimmer's track Why Do We Fall? from The Dark Knight Rises without requesting copyright from Warner Bros Pictures.

It was removed on Tuesday evening, hours after the video was posted on Trump's account.

Over a million people had already seen the video before it was taken down.

It opened with images of Democrats including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, followed by text that read: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they call you racist."

Then came video of key moments in Trump's time as president, such as meeting North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the Robert Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The video ended with a message saying "your vote proved them all wrong" and called the 2020 re-election "the great victory".

"The use of Warner Bros.' score from The Dark Knight Rises' in the campaign video was unauthorized," the company confirmed in a statement before Twitter removed the video. "We are working through the appropriate legal channels to have it removed."

The video was then removed and replaced with a message saying: "This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner."

The removal is notable because it appears to be only the second time Twitter has taken official action against Trump on the platform, despite numerous apparent violations of its policies around harassment, threats of violence, and other content rules.

Trump has regularly flouted Twitter rules with almost no repercussions, with Twitter claiming that the president’s tweets are inherently newsworthy and therefore protected under ambiguous exemptions.