- Judge rules that embedded tweet violates photo’s copyright
The blog Engadget is reporting that a New York federal court has ruled that a news sites that embedded a tweet containing a photo of quarterback Tom Brady violates the photographer’s copyright. The tweet was not sent out by the photographer. The Electronic Freedom Foundation reports that this ruling is at odds with a 2007 ruling fro the Ninth Circuit court that states that only the original hosting site can be sued (in this case, Twitter.)According the Engadget, the judge claimed that embedding a Tweet was a “highly technical process done by ‘coders.'”
Ummm… I’m hardly “highly technical” and certainly not a coder, but I routinely embed tweets by right clicking on them and copying the link. See:
Embedding is a “highly technical process done only by coders” which is why I just gave my beginning students a how-to link and didn’t even teach it this time. They still got it. https://t.co/Dbz1ObPeje
— Jeremy Littau (@JeremyLittau) February 16, 2018
- Taylor Swift has copyright lawsuit against her dismissed because lyrics are too “banal or trivial”
Have a hard time arguing with that one… “Haters gonna hate…”Vanity Fair is reporting that two writers for 3LW sued Swift for her song “Shake It Off” for the use of the phrase, “The players gonna play, play, play, and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate.”
Swift had previously been sued by Jessie Braham for her infringing on his 2013 song “Haters Gone Hate.”
Take a look at the following videos and see if you can make decision on copyright infringement:
Taylor Swift – Shake It Off
3LW – Playas Goin’ Play
Jessie Braham – Haters Gone Hate