SoylentNews

MrPlow [soylentnews.org] writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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.

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

Original Submission