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IP law can vary significantly between Europe and the US, and the publisher of this book is in the US. This is the take of a US IP lawyer on whether or not twee

by decode 16y ago

IP law can vary significantly between Europe and the US, and the publisher of this book is in the US. This is the take of a US IP lawyer on whether or not tweets are copyrighted: http://www.canyoucopyrightatweet.com/ http://www.canyoucopyrightatweet.com/ Essentially, he says it's very unlikely. Perhaps if you write a short poem, it could be construed as copyrighted, but otherwise you don't have much of a chance.

electromagnetic 16y ago
From my understanding quoting a single tweet, due to its length, wouldn't constitute a violation. However if you copied anyones twitter log, then yes that would be a gross violation of copyright. The whole is worth more than the sum of its parts, which is frequently how copyright law views the use of small pieces. I can legally use someone else's artwork in a collage or in my own non-derivative work (although derivatives basically don't exist in artwork, but for the sake of argument they do as they are still legally recognized) and I am at no legal risk because my collage of 1,000 pieces of artwork creates a whole new piece of art in itself. The book in question is likely a lazy assed crowdsource, likely much of which was written by average Joe's. However the real question here regardless of country is did the author make something new in their book? I remember reading a correspondence book that mixed multiple anonymous letters together to create a chapter, but no two were destined for the same person and it completely cleared any question of copyright infringement, however I doubt this book of tweets was artfully crafted together to evade copyright on the merits of its own work. From what I read of it, its simply hoping to avoid copyright on the duration of material, which it is likely going to do but legally speaking it shouldn't if it really is a lazy crowdsource compilation.

by decode 16y ago

electromagnetic 16y ago

From my understanding quoting a single tweet, due to its length, wouldn't constitute a violation. However if you copied anyones twitter log, then yes that would be a gross violation of copyright. The whole is worth more than the sum of its parts, which is frequently how copyright law views the use of small pieces. I can legally use someone else's artwork in a collage or in my own non-derivative work (although derivatives basically don't exist in artwork, but for the sake of argument they do as they are still legally recognized) and I am at no legal risk because my collage of 1,000 pieces of artwork creates a whole new piece of art in itself. The book in question is likely a lazy assed crowdsource, likely much of which was written by average Joe's. However the real question here regardless of country is did the author make something new in their book? I remember reading a correspondence book that mixed multiple anonymous letters together to create a chapter, but no two were destined for the same person and it completely cleared any question of copyright infringement, however I doubt this book of tweets was artfully crafted together to evade copyright on the merits of its own work. From what I read of it, its simply hoping to avoid copyright on the duration of material, which it is likely going to do but legally speaking it shouldn't if it really is a lazy crowdsource compilation.