Leo_Bloom:
There’s journalism, business, and law. Every single thing that someone writes in a Tweet, prints in it, belongs to Twitter. Now, when President Trump tweets, he is communicating from/as a non-private citizen or corporate identity. It’s unlikely the White House would or could (I’m not up on Pentagon Papers-type law, or anonymous source cases).
I need a cite on this, because it is absolutely contrary to copyright law.
If Twitter had a problem with people embedding tweets on their own pages, then they would stop doing it. The embedding only works because Twitter has specifically set up their system to enable it.
Something got crossed here. The only problem with it as far as they’re concerned is that it costs them money–a cost they have decided to absorb, anticipating income as a result.
Doug_K
April 1, 2018, 3:21pm
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Cite from Twitter’s TOS :
You retain your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Services. What’s yours is yours — you own your Content (and your photos and videos are part of the Content).
By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed). This license authorizes us to make your Content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same. You agree that this license includes the right for Twitter to provide, promote, and improve the Services and to make Content submitted to or through the Services available to other companies, organizations or individuals for the syndication, broadcast, distribution, promotion or publication of such Content on other media and services, subject to our terms and conditions for such Content use. Such additional uses by Twitter, or other companies, organizations or individuals, may be made with no compensation paid to you with respect to the Content that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Services.
In other words, no, your tweets don’t belong to Twitter. They just have a non-exclusive license to use them.
Yes, their license is essentially identical to the Dope’s.
Or, I expect, to pretty much everyone else on the Internet that has user-submitted content.