From: Ann Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 9:31 PM


Federal Judge Says Embedding a Tweet Can Be Copyright Infringement

"Rejecting years of settled precedent, a federal court in New York has
ruled [PDF] that you could infringe copyright simply by embedding a
tweet in a web page. Even worse, the logic of the ruling applies to
all in-line linking, not just embedding tweets. If adopted by other
courts, this legally and technically misguided decision would threaten
millions of ordinary Internet users with infringement liability."

[SNIP]

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/federal-judge-says-embedding-tweet-can-be-copyright-infringement?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRabVlqWXdOemxrT0RZeCIsInQiOiJDUit4ODVMTmo1bHU3ZjNDeGp2WlwvUHl0dldTajdvWUg4Q0N2dTVLbW1DMjZZa1QzQXAxUEhtWFNnRFB2bUtQQWI1dCtPeHRlcWhTdGsyVG4zbGpBSUN5VDk4Rm1UWWFpTFEwZmlZbFRpUkU5SXU3SU5DTFQ4Q3JGS2VHMlN5ZDUifQ%3D%3D