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What happens if someone replies with IP not owned by Disney and they use it?
by ScoutOrgo 6y ago
What happens if someone replies with IP not owned by Disney and they use it?
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoIn general, is a tweet long enough to be a work for copyright purposes? Anyone know of any copyright caselaw around tweets? I can imagine some poems being complete works and fitting in the character limit, perhaps.
- colejohnson66 6y agoStanford has a good webpage about short works and copyrights[0]. I’m sure 512 byte demo scene programs are copyrighted, and with Twitter raising the character limit, I’m sure some could be copyrighted. [0]: https://fairuse.stanford.edu/2003/09/09/copyright_protection_for_short/ https://fairuse.stanford.edu/2003/09/09/copyright_protection...
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoThanks, a useful review of US copyright here. >A similar style of nonsense “code words” prompted Judge Learned Hand to write, “Conceivably there may arise a poet [...] // A US judge really is called "Billings Learned Hand", surely a case of nominative determinism.
- snowwrestler 6y agoOne of two things: 1) No one complains, Disney uses the content and life goes on. 2) Someone complains, Disney takes that tweet down and replaces it with a different tweet and life goes on. Disney is not going to court over a tweet. They'll just take it down if someone complains. Also, under copyright law Disney will not "own" any of the IP in these tweets, the question is whether they have a license to use it.