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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: 2) by FatPhil on Monday February 19 2018, @05:52AM
Those others will politely request the original.
You can politely decline, as you now seem to have worked out.
That's all been part of the protocol since it was first invented - it was designed to be able to work that way.
Of course, their counter to your defence is to simply iframe your page and position it so that the image they want appears in the viewport, which uses even more of your bandwidth. XSRF-like tokens can be used to prevent that, but that makes your individual pages non-linkable, which kinda breaks the web.
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