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Elon Musk Says He Owns Everyone's Twitter Account in Bizarre Alex Jones Court Filing (gizmodo.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.zip

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Does it feel like your X account belongs to you and you can do whatever you want with it? That’s not true, according to a new court filing from the social media company formerly known as Twitter. It’s an argument that X is making in order to throw a wrench in The Onion’s recent purchase of InfoWars, the conspiracy theory media company run by Alex Jones. And it’s a great reminder that you don’t actually own what you think you own in the digital age.

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[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Nope.

as a user, “you retain your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Services. What’s yours is yours you own your Content (and your photos and videos are part of the Content),” although you also grant Twitter a license to use the content, which authorizes it “to make your Content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same.” Based on this language, other twitter users are also licensed to copy and redistribute your posts by “retweeting” them.

https://copyrightalliance.org/faqs/tweets-protected-copyright/

[–] JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world -4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Really ? I think you'll find that clause means you do not own copyright to anything you post on X.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Find some pedos posting bad stuff and they'll backtrack real fast

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Really? How do you get that from "you retain your rights and give Twitter a license to use your content"? Retaining rights literally means not giving them up.