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User content on Facebook may not be copyrightable. If I make a list of my personal interests, I haven't necessarily produced a creative work by the standards of
by wtn 17y ago
User content on Facebook may not be copyrightable. If I make a list of my personal interests, I haven't necessarily produced a creative work by the standards of US law.
Check out this site (just found it via search): http://www.canyoucopyrightatweet.com/ http://www.canyoucopyrightatweet.com/
- tibbon 17y agoCorrect- lists of facts without styling aren't something you can copyright. The specific form that they are printed in are copyrightable, but there is no IP created by a list of facts. Phone numbers, game scores, colors of rocks, etc... not copyrightable.
- gluejar 17y agoThe courts have generally only required a minimum of creativity to make something copyrightable. Also sentences are surprisingly easy to mke unique- see http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2009/11/uniqueness-of-sentences-and-j-k.html http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2009/11/uniqueness-of-sent...