New Delhi: If you are thinking about tweeting a joke, it better be original.
In what appears to be a crackdown on stolen and plagiarized content, Twitter has started hiding tweets which are reported by users as stolen.
The microblogging site is erasing and hiding a number of ‘stolen’ tweets and reporting to the original poster as the ‘copyright holder.’
Noticed first by one Twitter user, @PlagiarismBad, Twitter deleted at least five separate tweets for copying a joke which was apparently posted by Olga Lexell in the first place.
Lexell, who is a freelance writer in LA, confirmed that she had filed a request to have the tweets removed because as a freelance writer she makes her living writing jokes and thus, she wanted the tweets to be removed which were posted without her permission and did not gave her credit, The Verge notes.
Twitter has a system for handling claims of copyright infringement and under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the site is provided "safe harbor" from copyright claims so long as it does not try to protect infringing material.
Users can submit a claim through Twitter's web form, and Twitter’s team then verifies the claim before taking the required action of either removing or deleting the tweet in question. It then gives the offending user ten days to file a counter notice.
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