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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/
(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday February 18 2018, @11:34AM
Believe me, there's no such thing as bad publicity. Remember when the Access Hollywood "tape" came out? It got people talking about me. When they went to vote, they remembered my name. And the rest is history.
If you can get your picture, your name, your message out there, that's so valuable. It's called fame. And there are ways to make a tremendous living from it.
If your business depends on people paying to look at your picture, paying to read your message, these are hard times for you. Because we live in the age of Xerox, the age of Fax, the age of Internet. Where somebody presses a button, and your message is everywhere. You didn't get paid, but everybody sees your message. Your picture. It's taken me very far. Very far. But it's a big problem for you. It's not a problem, you think it's a problem. It's a problem because you think it's a problem.