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Twitter Yanks Tweets That Repeat Copyrighted Joke
Mark Wilson writes at Beta News: Can a joke be copyrighted? Twitter seems to think so. As spotted by Twitter account Plagiarism is Bad a number of tweets that repeat a particular joke are being hidden from view. The tweets have not been deleted as such, but their text has been replaced with a link to Twitter's Copyright and DMCA policy.
Quality of the joke itself aside -- no accounting for taste -- this seems a strange move for a site and service which is largely based around verbatim retransmission of other people's low-character-count declarations, recipes, questions, and Yes, jokes.
... post seems to be missing a link to the article, so here it is: http://betanews.com/2015/07/25...
It's turtles all the way down.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Every thing you write (in US at least) is copyright-en by default. So every thin you post (even this post) is copyroght-en. If Twittwe yanks Tweeks over one copyright, then they need to do it for all, or get sued for illegal copyright distribution.
What this is good thing! So at 140 characters all tweets would be exhausted at copyright-en at about 40^144 tweets, with untill the life of the poster plus 95 years! Twitter is dead! Yeah!
The joke isn't funny.
Maybe if the Flying Spaghetti Monster was substituted, it would not offend the copyright Goons.
Why did you put a capital "y" for "Yes" in the middle of an English sentence?
âoeThis tweet from @user has been withheld in response to a report from the copyright holder. Learn more: https://support.twitter.com/ar...â
Surely they mean alleged copyright holder ? Or "because of a copyright dispute" ?
The way it is written now it is ordinary Slander. Besides, why do it all, just don't show the tweet at all and just inform only the poster of the problem is a far more civilized way of handling this.
Having said that, most people would like their jokes to be told again, if possible with attribution. So unless the creator has gone through the process of copyrighting the joke and enforcing it, it seems to be an overkill to enforce it suo motu.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Quality of the joke itself aside - no accounting for taste - this seems a strange move for a site and service which is largely based around verbatim retransmission of other people's low-character-count declarations, recipes, questions, and Yes, jokes.
This joke seems a tad bit tortured. Hopefully the comedian has kept their day job.
Maybe I can break it down for the readers at home:
Step 1. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Step 2. Pun cleanse, something that makes the consumer defecate violently, and cleanliness.
Step 3. Hot grits
Step 4. If you spill a cleanse on yourself, cleanliness is on your side.
Step 5. By the transitive magic of Step 1, God is also on your side.
This is a very bad joke. Perhaps I'll tell a better one:
A. Knock knock.
B. Who's there?
A. ~fin~
It takes a good actor to deliver it convincingly. Not the joke. It being funny.
I'd rather have this piece of dung being forgotten than copyrighted. But yes, of course jokes are creative work and can be copyrighted. Even though in this time and age, and this copyright, I'd rather not. It's one thing if the latest and greatest crap some whining buoy howled cannot be distributed (and it would actually do the world a great favor if it wasn't), but laughter and humor should not be reigned in.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The joke is stupid; "Saw someone spill their high end juice cleanse all over the sidewalk and now I know god is on my side". Honestly, why anyone would want to claim that is beyond me.
From digital spy:
Olga Lexell, a freelance writer in LA, is allegedly the first person to publish this joke to Twitter. Tweeting this afternoon, she confirmed that she did file a request to get the messages removed.
Well Olga, your shitty joke will now be an example of the Streisand effect.
-Styopa
spilling juice cleanse out of their low end
Being over 50, my doctor wanted to do that invasive, "you have reached middle age and all your frat boy jokes have come home to mock you" procedure called a colonoscopy. The preparation for it involves not eating for a day or so, and living for that day off of the flavors of Gatoraide with no artificial coloring, and megadose of laxative. The results are mostly best left to the imagination, but it lends a new understanding to what a "cleanse" is really supposed to do. And the Gatorade helps provide enough potassium and salts to keep your nervous system active and accidentally stopping your heart. (Hey, I'm old, I learn these things!)
Highlights of the prep day included actually clocking fart duration as the day went on. (53 continuous seconds, a personal record!) The confusion on the prep nurse's face when I took off my jacket to show a custom ordered T-shirt with a long stemmed rose and text balloon saying "Read the card, read the card!!!" was then followed by the horrified enlightenment as I explained the joke. (https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=652546288196190&id=117621625021995)
The surgeon who visited to introduce himself before the procedure got it immediately. Surgeons.... surgeons went to medical school. Mentioning the fart duration barely got a smirk. And a joke about dropping a fruit cleanse is not going to amuse them *at all* because frankly it's not funny,
Secretly replacing the dropped fruit cleanse with the results from the end of my day of prep for colonoscopy.... now *that* would amuse a surgeon.
Meh, Twitter has become passe anyway. Their new "anti-harassment" rules are being abused to silence anyone who dares disagree with the leftists running Twitter. 140 characters never was enough to form a coherent thought anyway. (As an example, see this "joke.") Twitter is dying, and this stupid copyright stuff will only hasten its demise.
Saw someone spill their high end juice cleanse all over the sidewalk and now I know god is on my side
Is that a joke? It doesn't seem to be a very good one.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I really used to come here for the news.
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2010/jul/22/keith-chegwin-comedians-jokes-twitter
for people no from the UK and under 30 'Cheggers' is a Z list celeb best known for appearing on a saturday morning kids show in the 70s and getting his cock out and appearing on a TV 'game show' called Naked Jungle
as for is it copywritable ... sure. each joke is a complete work of art.
So you're saying I can claim copyright of every racist, terrible, piece of dross written on Twitter as long as I can prove I wrote it before them? I can clean up Twitter. It will be copyright notices as far as the eye can see. Only truly useful posts will survive.
"Peepee"
Some people giggled, therefore it is a joke and complete work of art, and therefore copyrightable. Nobody can use the word "peepee" without express permission of me.
Absurd enough yet?
Because the idea that any statement or phrase, no matter how lame, could be construed as a joke and therefore copyrightable sure is.
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This is how I broke it down:
It comes from the perspective of someone who believes a juice cleanse is a waste of money so the person who bought one got punished for wasting money when they threw up.
Somebody else in a different thread had a different interpretation, but here's mine:
It comes from the perspective of someone who believes a juice cleanse is a waste of money so the person who bought one got punished for wasting money when they threw up.
"Donald Trump"
Pay me, bitches.
If the "joke" is about her being against using cleanses or detox routines, all a skeptic has to do is Google "How to beat a drug test" for proof.
If a large number of users post things and they get retweeted, then a copyright take down notice comes for each one, it could keep twitter busy and cost them a lot of money. Even with automated tools to take down the tweets, someone has to look at the requests.
You are all cows. Cows say moo. MOOOOOOOO! MOOOOOOOO! Moo cows MOOOOOOOO! Moo say the cows. YOU COWS!!
Oh silly me, I assume that the juice cleans came out the other side.
Apocalypse Cancelled, Sorry, No Ticket Refunds
The "joke":
Saw someone spill their high end juice cleanse all over the sidewalk and now I know god is on my side.
Don't knock-knock it.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
They can just force something like CC license on user content. It won't work against stuff that have been copyrighted already but works against jokes written in twitter directly.
Moderating "-1, Disagree" is simple censorship. Have the guts to post your opinion. -- Spazmania (174582)
Taking down this joke is for your own good.
Have gnu, will travel.
This morning I realized Jesus was on my side after seeing a woman puke her high end juice cleanse all over the street
A) maybe a little funnier? she didn't give much to work with people so cut me some slack
B) is this changed enough to invalidate her claim, making this a new "joke"
So they banned Carlos Mencia's twitter account?
"Information wants to be expensive" - Stewart Brand, the same guy who said "Information wants to be free"
That anyone repeated that awful joke.
"Joke"? I don't see any kind of in-line conflict, anything to misconstrue, any lingual curveball or disruption, anything contradictory (seemingly or actually), or even a pun. I'm not talking about "taste", I'll allow a shitty level of wit, I mean either you pony up some kind of mechanic that's at least ARGUABLY capricious or that word does not fucking apply and the person at each step of the echo chamber tracing back to Original Claim is an idiot.
With these headlines I normally drop something clever about imaginary property, but I'm still bent out of shape over having to blast that "joke" business back into line.
Shit, now I have to take time out of my day to watch that episode.
Chewbacon
The Bible is like Wikipedia: written by a bunch of people and verifiable by questionable sources.
Sorry, I can't tell you the rest, it's been redacted
Table-ized A.I.
Writing a joke is hard work. Sure, it's 140 characters, but it can take a long time of searching out inspiration, research, and then writing and rewriting to get it in its punchiest form. Most of us come up with good ones on our own every once in a while, but producing enough to sustain an online following can be a heavy investment. It's no surprise the producers are leaning on twitter for some protection of their reputation and/or livelihood.
As usual, though, it is misguided. The difference between a successful joke and a failed jokes is precisely that the former is likely to get repeated. It's half the reason people follow this accounts and watch comedians is so they can borrow material to entertain their friends and romantic interests. Maybe that's not 100% honest but that's a part of what's driving your traffic. Some jokes have to be told from your perspective -- a citation ruins the humor. (Or you've modified it and citing now would be entirely honest.) Sometimes you remember the joke but not where it came from. That's part of the life of a joke.
But it is strikingly dishonest when you have other accounts stealing material wholesale, morning radio programs running your material without credit, and traffic-generating pages copying it verbatim (except for the citation). Whether that should invite legal response I don't know, but it should certainly invite some shame.
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
Notice that the user has now protected her account. You can only see her Tweets if she unprotects her account. With this publicity, she'll get lots of requests, thus lots of followers.
http://yetanotherpoliticalrant.blogspot.com
I keep copywriting all my stuff, whether it be a post here, a post there, or data in the cloud.
I guess that's why there's gonna be copyright reform.
Too bad there ain't patent reform. Donald Trump is for that, he's the only one.
Effectively, a DMCA on a copyright joke that's not even funny. That's actually funny.
I might take a patent on out a joke, for every joke like this - I want to get paid.
[number(n)] of [profession/people of an ethnic group/categorisation of people, persons, or entities] [by a selected form of locomotion] into a [premises of a particular designation]
[the first entity of professions/people of an ethnic group/categorisation of people, persons, or entities] [by form of action] [competes a task/verbalises something in line with a selected theme]
[the first entity of professions/people of an ethnic group/categorisation of people, persons, or entities] [by form of action] [competes a task/verbalises something in line with a selected theme]
.
.
.
[the nth entity of professions/people of an ethnic group/categorisation of people, persons, or entities] [by form of action] [competes a task/verbalises something that juxtaposes a selected theme]> (possibly the the "punchline")
[optional addition statement to further add or create a punchline]
$$$ Profit! $$$
...joke owns YOU!" (C)
This joke would be funnier if it was about a "Jews Cleanse" instead!
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Its really sad how world is changing and which direction it is going. Imagine 50 year ago someone would have told you this story - the story itself would have sounded like a joke. Nowadays it seems worth debating if someone can forbid you to tell one or another joke. One day they tell you cant print and sell books without author permission - ok, seems reasonable - writers have to live somehow. Then they say you cant copy and sell music records - ok, quite reasonable - musicians have to live somehow. Then they say you cant copy and sell records even when authors are dead long ago - hmm.. Then they say you cant copy and share some songs with friends. Then they say you cant copy songs for yourself. They also say you cant play music radio in your shop. They also say you cant take and use photos of particular public places. They say you have to pay for some imaginary losses when you buy storage media. With every day they have to say something new what you cant do what was normal to do yesterday. And I start thinking that soon you could not sing, talk, write or build anything without infringing someones obscure rights. And the frightening part is that with time we start to think it is normal - wrote 20 words "joke"? - From now on nobody, only you, can tell this (or similar!) sentence. This is how the world ends: not with a bang but with slow slipping downhills.
(Yep, it wouldn't strike me if it occurred that this text infringes someones intellectual "property")
So if I set up a script that produces all possibly text 140 characters or less and then copyrite them, can I essentially kill Twitter because every tweet possible is now copyrighted?
"Saw someone spill their high end juice cleanse all over the sidewalk and now I know god is on my side."
Come at me, bro.
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