FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: LIBLICENSE <liblicense@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 8:28 AM Subject: Tweeting and copyright To: LIBLICENSE-L@listserv.crl.edu From: Ann Okerson <aokerson@gmail.com> 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... -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.