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		luckylion on March 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of St... Copyrighting tweets? I love the idea as a demonstration of the absurd extent of copyright, but I'd expect virtually no tweets to be considered copyrightable.

ohmaigad on March 5, 2020 | [–]

This idea has been looked at - https://copyrightalliance.org/ca_faq_post/tweet-protected-co... Seems that if you posted an original joke it should be copyrightable.

ASalazarMX on March 4, 2020 | [–]

IANAL, but I feel like an original tweet to @bbcmicrobot should be copyrightable. Maybe adding a little © at the end to signal original authorship?

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