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Twitter Yanks Tweets That Repeat Copyrighted Joke

Posted by timothy on from the head-scratcher-loaded-for-bear dept.

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.

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  1. Missing link... by wilsonmark · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... post seems to be missing a link to the article, so here it is: http://betanews.com/2015/07/25...

    1. Re:Missing link... by hackwrench · · Score: 5, Informative

      It's really lame. 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.

  2. Details by argStyopa · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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    1. Re:Details by squiggleslash · · Score: 4, Informative

      Yes but now everyone will associate that joke with its author, so she won't feel like nobody knows that the world's worst attempt at a joke was written by her.

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