Federal Judge Says Embedding a Tweet Can Be Copyright Infringement
Submitted by JtC on Sat, 02/17/2018 - 11:34amThis could change the internet as we know it.
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.