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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2018, @03:01AM
Perhaps instead of 3 minute sound bytes, worthy events will get a small documentary, and unworthy events will be forgotten. (Interesting to note that government interference may not be required here, but men are not angels after all.)
How much clearer and more damning might the events of the Flint water crisis, for example, have been if our exposure to it were in the format of small documentaries waiting until we have time to watch instead of blaring in headlines? I might be suggesting reality shows, but imagine if reality shows were about reality instead of dipshits who are famous for being famous.
For this to work at all, there would need to be some kind of completely independent (of Visa, MasterCard, et al) payment and distribution system. Perhaps cryptocurrencies will get there for payment eventually through gradual evolution (both technical and social). BitTorrent seems mature as a distribution system. (These new documentarians will encourage their works to be freely [as in beer, not necessarily freedom] distributed and live off cyberbegging. In order to work best, sponsorship should be generally shunned. Accept donations from individuals only.)