‘What Businesses Should Know About Copyright and Twitter Use’ – ‘Entrepreneur’ Blog
Nina Zipkin says, “Your Twitter page is a powerful brand-building tool – it can help you do everything from grow your customer base to land you a book deal, which is why it makes perfect sense for you to protect what you tweet. While Twitter has always had policies for handling copyright infringement related to embedded media such as photos, videos and links, it appears the social media giant also intervenes in cases when a user copies another’s tweet without attributing the original user – a practice that’s been happening since Twitter’s beginnings.
Over the weekend, a Twitter user called @PlagiarismBad pointed out that several users who copied and pasted a joke first tweeted out by user @runolgarun — a Los Angeles-based freelance writer named Olga Lexell – were taken down by Twitter on copyright grounds“.
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