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Is it possible to make a book of tweet contents without permission?What to look out for when dealing with content copyright

Other contributors are planning to make a book with illustrations by some contributors from the contents tweeted by many contributors using the function "hashtag" of the web service "twitter (hereinafter, Twitter)". There was an incident in which the release of the book was frozen due to problems such as. Such problems have been repeated for 20 years since the era of bulletin boards for personal computer communication, but in the era of the Internet, it is indispensable for companies other than media-related companies to consider the copyright of contents and the handling of personal information and to create rules. Let's reconsider the points that should be noted in the wake of the incident.

Freelance writer Shinji Nakao

Freelance writer Shinji Nakao

Freelance writer and editor. From editing ASCII books to O'Reilly Japan, he translates, writes, and interviews both on paper and on the Web. He has a lot of IT, but occasionally writes in automobile-related media. I've been using the internet (though I didn't say it) since UUCP.

Hashtag book planning on the internet, postponement of publication indefinitely

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Twitter has established a solid position as a communication tool. One of its functions is "hashtag". If you post by putting "# ○○" in the remark, you can list the remarks with the tag on the search screen etc., and it is easy to browse various opinions of participants of the same event and people with similar interests. It is a function. Twitter is functioning as a communication medium where many people post about one theme (theme). The case began with the story of publishing a series of exciting posts with this hashtag as a book. The original hashtag "#Aho Boys' Mother Death Karuta" is to post the child-rearing experience of a mother with a son and the sadness that comes from confronting an adolescent son. A book whose author is the person who posted this hashtag with his own illustration will be released. However, when this project became public, the person who first made the hashtag (it seems that there was a story about books around this person, but it was not realized because of busy work etc.) and other contributors It "burned" as it was proceeding without any contact. It was also pointed out that the publisher's site was instructed to post to a hashtag similar to the original hashtag, saying "Your post will be a manga". After this turmoil, the publisher announced with an apology that the publication of the book would be postponed indefinitely.

Why did the publisher give a go-ahead to the project?

The problem of commercial use of Internet content has been repeated many times since the era of bulletin boards for personal computer communication 20 years ago. It is tempting to wonder if companies and users have no learning ability, but the platforms for online communication and information disclosure are constantly changing, and it is difficult to make the best decisions for the present based on past cases alone. Is also true. First of all, who should be the most responsible for this issue? As long as the direct problem is the publishing project, the responsibility of the publisher will be unavoidable. The author was told by the person in charge who proposed the project that the legal issues had been cleared. So what is the rationale for the publisher to say that there is no legal problem? According to the published apology, the person who originally created the hashtag and the person who posted it have not been individually confirmed or permitted, but from the terms of use of Twitter (the content tweeted is secondary). It seems that it was judged that it was possible to make it into a book (because it was written that it was supposed to be used). [Next page] Who owns the copyright of the tweet?

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