Twitter Yanks Tweets That Repeat Copyrighted Joke

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 26, 2015 @12:23AM 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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Huh? by Stephen+Chadfield · 2015-07-26 00:37 · Score: 4, Insightful

The joke isn't funny.
Re:Twitter-its by Kokuyo · 2015-07-26 00:39 · Score: 4, Insightful

And soon, so will be the English language because that blow you just dealt it sure looks fatal...
Re:Everything is copyrighted by ClaraBow · 2015-07-26 00:59 · Score: 3, Insightful

It's turtles all the way down.©
--Fixed it!

Yeah, I got your back--didn't want you to get in trouble!
Re:Missing link... by rhazz · 2015-07-26 01:24 · Score: 5, Insightful

That's either really lame or I don't get it. I suspect it's really lame.