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Thursday, August 28, 2008

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Copyright and Twitter

The Blog Herald runs a feature by Plagiarism Today’s Jonathan Bailey on copyright and Twitter. Bottom line: The 140-character limit means tweets will rarely be sufficiently creative to fall under copyright (cf. @hotdogsladies) or worth suing over. “That being said … a collection of tweets from the same person could be copyrightable if they could be seen as one large work broken apart over many entries.” The article also covers posting links to illegal content, defamation, and trademark. Read the story.

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