| Author | Message | ||
     Mikej |
I read this on the Twitter Terms of Service page:
There is more. So does this mean that if I post something print-worthy, and if the Twitter Corp decides to publish a coffee table book (call it Neat Tweets or Sweet Tweets or Society In The Twitter Age), would they have to pay any royalties or does the agreement giving them rights to posted content cover their potential profit-goal use of posted content? Just looking for an internet virtual opinion of Twitter and Facebook and other social or forum discussion sites where the Terms of Service grant free use of content by the site owners. For example, if I post a ride report series of riding my Buell(s) along with posting some TwitPics, can Twit-Corp later publish those posts and pics in print or elsewhere for profit? Just a curiosity from the recesses of my mind. | ||
| Kilroy |
Sure sounds that way. Facebook even used to have a clause that they would retain anything you posted (for all eternity) even after you cancel / closed your account. Public outrage caused hem to modify that slightly IIRC. | ||
| Hex |
What if you said something really important in a public room and someone heard it? Nobody really noticed what you said because everyone was busy doing their own thing. Someone in the room recognizes that there is an interesting and potentially marketable idea and decided to copyright, produce, market, and profit from your expression. Seems hard to see who had the initiative. |
