US District Court Judge William Pauley Recently dismissed a motion in a case where the french free press(AFP) published a twitpic witout properly crediting or paying the correct user, so the person sued, but the AFP tried to fight back by saying it’s on twitter so everyone can use it, they were well with in twitter guidelines but….See details
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Twitter rules sayThe Judge thinks the AFP is full of it, he states:
By their express language, Twitter’s terms grant a license to use content only to Twitter and its partners. Similarly, Twitpic’s terms grant a license to use photographs only to “Twitpic.com or affiliated sites.” AFP and the Third-Party Defendants do not claim they are partners of Twitter or affiliates of Twitpic licensed under the terms of service. Moreover, the provision that Twitter “encourage[s] and permit[s] broad re-use of Content” does not clearly confer a right on other users to re-use copyrighted postings. Rather, that permissive language stands in contrast to the express, mandatory terms conferring a “license” and “rights” on Twitter.