EFF Deeplinks company blog

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...
Points
131
HN comments
72
Submissions
1
Cited by
0 commenters

Society, Policy & CultureTech Industry & Business2018

On Hacker News

SubmittedTitle on HNPointsComments
Feb 16, 2018Federal Judge Says Embedding a Tweet Can Be Copyright Infringement by ad_hominem13172

More from EFF Deeplinks

All 603 posts →

Related posts from the same era