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Two different ways to look at this interesting situation: 1) A tweet is no different than an email sent to the entire world. Like an email, if you want to pro
by johnrob 17y ago
Two different ways to look at this interesting situation:
1) A tweet is no different than an email sent to the entire world. Like an email, if you want to protect the contents, you should include a disclaimer.
2) A tweet is a small blogpost, subject to the same content ownership rights.
- pyre 17y agoYou're also forgetting that a tweet is 'something that someone said.' If I published a book of quotes overheard at cocktail parties, or just walking down a busy street in the city, would I be falling into the same issues? I think that the length of the tweets also comes into issue here. Tweets can only by 140 characters long. If I made a book that was a compilation of 140-character quotes from blog posts, would I fall into the same issues? Can I not use a tweet as a quote under fair use just because 140-characters is also 100% of the content, and not just a portion of the content?