I’ve been pondering over this issue for some time now – Is Re-Tweeting someone’s tweets essentially a copyright violation at some level? As far as my understanding goes, as a content creator you essentially own the right to your content as soon as you have put pen to paper, or in this case published a tweet. Of course, by tweets I mean those random quirky thoughts that get posted and not the rampant link sharing that twitter is fast devolving into.
So, if by tweeting your thoughts, you automatically own the copyright to the tweets, doesn’t re-tweeting in some way violate that? Of course, the argument against that could very well be that we tweet so that others can re-tweet. In essence, the giving away of some copyrights could even be argued to be implicit to the very act of tweeting. (more…)
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I'm Elroy Serrao, a technologist, photographer, and part time blogger from India.
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