Jokes Included in Twitter's Copyright Policy
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| techcrunch.com |
Twitter has removed at least 5 separate tweets on copyright
grounds for reproducing a joke without permission from the original publisher. The
joke was first published by @runolgarun, but it later appeared on several other
accounts. First spotted by @PlagiarismBad, the tweets were not deleted as such,
but replaced by a link to Twitter’s copyright policy.
theverge.com
In a tweet at the weekend, Lexell confirmed that she requested
to have the tweets removed for reproducing her intellectual property without
permission. She added that most of the accounts that copied her jokes were spam
accounts that reuse other people’s content every day.
Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Twitter is
provided ‘safe harbour’ from claims of copyright infringement as long as it does
not try to protect any offending material. Usually, copyright claims concern
embedded material like photos and videos, or links to copyrighted material such
as illegal media streaming sites – it’s rare that they include the actual text
of a tweet. Anyone can submit a request through Twitter’s copyright infringement report page. If Twitter decides a request is valid they can follow
through with it and remove or delete the tweet. The offending user is then
given 10 days to submit a counter notice.
US copyright law does not always cover short phrases, so tweets
are a stretch for traditional copyright law purposes, but Twitter makes its own
rules and can apply them how it wants. In the past, Twitter has pushed a hardline pro-free speech stance, but in recent times it has shifted its position on tweet flow to control the type of content that can be viewed and attract a larger user-base.
Aaron Waterhouse
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