"Annemarie Bridy, an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, said nothing in the law dictates a tweet is automatically copyrightable. Instead, it’s the content of a tweet that matters. You can own the copyright of that content if it’s original to you—the author—and if it’s in a fixed medium, she said, such as published in a book, magazine—or possibly even in a tweet. If you want to sue someone for copyright infringement for plagiarizing your tweet, you have to prove the content you tweeted was copyrightable in the first place.
“That means your tweet has to be original, so you can’t own the idea of a joke about two guys who walk into a bar,” she said. “The threshold for saying something is copyrightable is not that high in terms of how creative it has to be, but it does have to be something that is original to you.”"
- Date Published:08/23/2015
- Original Publication:Vocativ