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In 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 comp
by pbhjpbhj 7y ago
In 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 7y 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 7y 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.