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posted by janrinok on Sunday February 18 2018, @06:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the embed-it-in-concrete dept.

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A New York federal court has ruled that people can be held liable for copyright infringement if they embed a tweet posted by a third party. The case was filed by Justin Goldman, whose photo of Tom Brady went viral and eventually ended up at several news sites, which embedded these 'infringing' tweets.

Nowadays it's fairly common for blogs and news sites to embed content posted by third parties, ranging from YouTube videos to tweets.

Although these publications don't host the content themselves, they can be held liable for copyright infringement, a New York federal court has ruled.

The case in question was filed by Justin Goldman whose photo of Tom Brady went viral after he posted it on Snapchat. After being reposted on Reddit, it also made its way onto Twitter from where various news organizations picked it up.

Several of these news sites reported on the photo by embedding tweets from others. However, since Goldman never gave permission to display his photo, he went on to sue the likes of Breitbart, Time, Vox and Yahoo, for copyright infringement.

Source: https://torrentfreak.com/embedding-a-tweet-can-be-copyright-infringement-court-rules-180216/


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2018, @08:47AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2018, @08:47AM (#639658)

    Or swap the named image with a NSFW image.

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  • (Score: 3, Redundant) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 18 2018, @12:39PM (2 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday February 18 2018, @12:39PM (#639683) Homepage Journal

    Far better would be using referrer value to pick which image gets returned. Your site? Funny cat picture. Anything else? Goatse.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2018, @01:55PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2018, @01:55PM (#639693)

      And get sued by the goatse copyright holder.