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The beauty of 140 characters... When is short too short for copyright? I'm pretty sure that Fluther's TOS doesn't apply here since Mahalo never used the site.
by alain94040 17y ago
The beauty of 140 characters... When is short too short for copyright?
I'm pretty sure that Fluther's TOS doesn't apply here since Mahalo never used the site.
- jobenjo 17y agoGood question. Can you copyright a haiku? If you tweeted a haiku and if that haiku later appeared in a book of poetry without your attribution, would that be okay?
- calvin 17y agoTechnically, Twitter says you keep the right to your words. If you wanted to give up the rights to your words, you could use something like tweetCC (http://tweetcc.com/ http://tweetcc.com/) to apply a Creative Commons license to your tweets.
- gojomo 17y agoDoesn't matter what Twitter says if the utterance itself isn't copyrightable by anyone. Jobenjo has a point about haiku -- but questions will seldom be recognized as poetry. Indeed, as a question gets better as a question, more concise and precise, it becomes more like a pure idea, or a strictly functional communicative construct. You can't assert a copyright on those.
- pingswept 17y agoActually, Twitter just says that they don't claim any right to your words. ("We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the Twitter service.") Whether you can copyright text as short as 140 characters is at least debatable-- it may be that nobody holds copyright over tweets.