Twitter amends copyright takedown policy
Twitter has amended its copyright policy in relation to infringing tweets by no longer simply taking down tweets which are the subject of complaints, but instead replacing it with a note explaining that the tweet has been removed for copyright reasons, along with a link to Twitter’s copyright policy.
The move means that copyright complaints will now be referenced in users timeline of events rather than simply vanishing without trace, allowing users to discuss the issue with the original poster.
Twitter says it has enacted the change in a bid to increase transparency in an email to Gigaom’s Jeff John Roberts: "[W]hen we get a valid DMCA request, we withhold the tweet until such time as we get (if we ever do) a valid counter-response from the user. In this case, if someone with the permalink tries to navigate to the tweet, they'll see that it is being withheld for copyright reasons. We also send the requests to Chilling Effects for publication.
“Our prior policy was to delete the Tweet without any language explaining the takedown, then manually repost the Tweet if/when we got a valid counter response."
Anyone subject to a takedown order for one of their tweets can submit a counter-notice to Twitter which the complainer must respond to within ten days, otherwise Twitter may cease disabling the censored content.