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"You'll Lol @ This Tweet": Copyright Protection For Hashtag Gamers, Alan Lacerra
"You'll Lol @ This Tweet": Copyright Protection For Hashtag Gamers, Alan Lacerra
Florida State University Law Review
Hashtag games combine the fun of quick, incongruous exchanges with the work of creative expression and do so online through microblogging, predominantly (if not exclusively) on Twitter. Currently, hashtag-game participants face two main obstacles to copyright protection for their fun expressions: the expressions' brevity and Twitter's terms of service. To protect the copyrights that Internet users acquire by participating in hashtag games, courts should focus on the creativity rather than the brevity of the resulting expressions. Furthermore, Congress should amend the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to prevent Internet service providers, like Twitter, from encroaching on users' rights through broad …