Tweet © ?
p2pnet news view | Cool:- Is a tweet copyrightable?
Is it copyrighted by default when it’s published?
Can there possibly be a fair use exception for something that’s only 140 characters or less?
So wonders Mark Cuban on Blog Maverick.
During an NBA game, “I tweeted to the people who follow me,” he says, going he hadn’t asked that they not be distributed to other tweeters, he didn’t give permission to, “republish my tweets in a commercial newspaper, magazine or website”.
So, “when an ESPN.com or any other outlet republishes a tweet, have they violated copyright law ?”
Not only but also, are tweets private communications, “to those that follow you ? Even if you dont block outsiders from seeing it ?”
Adds Cuban »»»
You could also extend this to Facebook. Do you own your status update ? Is it a private communications between you and friends, or is a published work ? If a newspaper or website wants to publish your status update, do they need permission first ?
And MySpace, and Bebo, and, and …
Stay tweeted.
Blog Maverick – Security issues with Google Docs, March 26, 2009
TechCrunch – Google Privacy Blunder Shares Your Docs Without Permission, March 7, 2009
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March 30th, 2009 at 9:37 am
With tweets, there is no Fourth Amendment constitutional protection, because tweets are communication to a third party.
But there may be other privacy statutes.
https://ssd.eff.org/your-computer/govt/privacy