Embedding a tweet could violate copyright
If you've ever embedded a tweet on your blog, that could be a copyright violation, according to a New York federal court ruling . Numerous sites, including Time , Yahoo (which is part of Oath, Engadget's parent company), Vox and Breitbart published stories with an embedded tweet containing an image of NFL star Tom Brady. The tweet was posted by another party, but the photographer who took the photo accused the news sites of copyright infringement for embedding it. The judge agreed, saying their actions "violated plaintiff's exclusive display right." Open internet advocate group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) wrote that that effectively upends ten years of precedent from a 2007 Ninth Circuit ruling called "Perfect 10 v. Amazon." In that case, the court ruled that the hosting entity is liable for copyrights, not the company or individual who embeds or links it. That's because anyone links to the content might not know that it's infring...