Just to clarify. I never said they were Public Domain. Twitter or the user own the copyrights. Probably both. I meant it has been made public information, thereby granting some rights to those it was made public to. I wouldn't have a right to redistribute a book written by you, but I have every right to quote it in an article I write about you. More importantly, I can read 1000 books by 1000 different people and then write a paper that says 50% of the books written contained the word 'Obama' and and the average amount of times "Obama" was used in a book was 14. I wouldn't be breaking any laws. But who cares. In the future, if you want to access the Twitter data for such usage with any sort of speed you will pay to do so. It won't even be worth the headache if you can devise an alternative.
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Matthew Terenzio <[email protected]>wrote: > I don't care what your newsletter says. I'm talking about American law. > > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:28 PM, L. Mohan Arun <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "We have every right in the world to gather this data for analysis >> without >> any permission. It's public." >> >> No. >> >> "You don't get to compile posts from a discussion forum into a >> product, under the idea that such posts are "public domain." >> They are not." - Unless you own the forum or have a deal with the >> forum owner, >> and you stated in the TOS >> that all posts made in the forum can be repackaged commercially >> and only you have the right to do that. >> >> I am not saying this on my own, this is from one of the newsletters I >> receive, >> which covered this exact same topic, I would be happy to share the >> relevant >> text of the newsletter if someone is interested ... >> >> - - - >> Mohan Arun >> www.mohanarun.com >> >> >> -- >> Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc >> API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi >> Issues/Enhancements Tracker: >> http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list >> Change your membership to this group: >> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk >> > > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
