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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
Football games are public too ... they are a performance for profit and are copyright. Any content that is a planned performance (or deed) for the benefit of ones self or some other benefactor (like a charity event) is copyright. A webcam performance that we broadcast in public is copyright -- it is a planned performance for profit.
A tweet of 160 characters, not planned or not planned for profit, is not copyright it is impromptu ;
An analogy: If you video someone running down the street naked that is an "impromptu" performance. That is not copyright. The right of publicity (personality rights) is a totally separate issue. If a security camera videos my ''crime'' is it a violation of the right of publicity or the 4th Amendment Rights (search and seizure)? No. Could I win a case of right of publicity for the tort that I was videoed smoking a joint in an alley? No.
This post is not copyright (c) me. I grant non-exclusive copyright to GFY to transmit it. Would GFY sue if another site used just this post? Not copying the entire page -- the entire page is produced with intent and for profit -- the ad revenue ...
Twitter has copyright of their feeds but in aggregate as a work intended for profit. Twitter makes no copyright claim on an individual's tweets -- if they did they would be legally responsible for the tweet's content -- that is a giant can of worms ...  |
I don't know about USA, but in here that profit thing plays no part in defining is it under copyright or not. Being unique does. Also, if I have got it correctly, football game is not under copyright in here, but for example record about it is (well, not under copyright, but similar rights).
This post is copyrighted to me, despite me giving certain permissions to GFY. Copyright doesn't need to be exclusive. For example if I post some porn pic made by me to Tumbrl and thus give certain rights to Tumblr, I don't lose my own rights to the picture. As neither does for example content selling services unless the rights are sold totally. And in any case, I will always be the creator of my own work. Even if I sell all rights, unless it is chostwriting, someone can't claim it as their own work.