Tweet copyrightability
March 5th 2010 06:55
A few posts ago I wrote about the idea of copyrighting tweets.
The thought at that time was that tweets weren't copyrightable by dint of their being basically short phrases, which, in general copyright law, are not considered to be something that can be copyrighted. (I keep wanting to go copywrite...)
Anyway, a reader left a comment on that post and pointed me to a much clearer post on another site called Emerging Strategies, where there's a post called Tweet Copyrightability. (What a delightful word!)
The writer is William A Bonk - or as the reader called him, Bill Bonk. It's not a name that you'd much associate with legal things, but what's in a name?
Here are some samples of names that fit their jobs more appropriately:
A Science Channel documentary about the "biggest explosions in the universe" narrated by John Shrapnel.
or
The person who invented fitness equipment pivoting board that turns you upside down to decompress the spine was named Roger Teeter.
And then there's the racing driver called Scott Speed.
No doubt there are people whose names don't match their jobs, but that's another story.
In the meantime, if you're interested in the subject of whether tweets are copyrightable, I suggest you check Bill Bonk out.
The thought at that time was that tweets weren't copyrightable by dint of their being basically short phrases, which, in general copyright law, are not considered to be something that can be copyrighted. (I keep wanting to go copywrite...)
Anyway, a reader left a comment on that post and pointed me to a much clearer post on another site called Emerging Strategies, where there's a post called Tweet Copyrightability. (What a delightful word!)
The writer is William A Bonk - or as the reader called him, Bill Bonk. It's not a name that you'd much associate with legal things, but what's in a name?
Here are some samples of names that fit their jobs more appropriately:
A Science Channel documentary about the "biggest explosions in the universe" narrated by John Shrapnel.
or
The person who invented fitness equipment pivoting board that turns you upside down to decompress the spine was named Roger Teeter.
And then there's the racing driver called Scott Speed.
No doubt there are people whose names don't match their jobs, but that's another story.
In the meantime, if you're interested in the subject of whether tweets are copyrightable, I suggest you check Bill Bonk out.
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