The "platform" that Twitter is restricting access to is a website, with a bunch of content put on it by users of that website. IANAL, but I don't see what rights to that data could possibly be claimed by a third party.
that seems like a fairly meaningless semantic point. twitter controls the access to the data, therefore it is their data. all the copyright means is that tweet authors are free to take the content of their tweets and put it somewhere else.
IANAL. You still own the content you create, including your tweets, but by tweeting that content Twitter can do basically whatever they want with that data too.
If I wanted to publish a website of your tweets, I believe I could contact you and get your permission, or I negotiate the rights through Twitter, like using their third party API.
Twitter wants this both ways, they say it's the users' data when requested to turn it over, but they say it's their data when a user wants to use a 3rd party client to access it.
Likely there's a small mountain of trackable and connected data in Twitters datacenters that they can act on.
But this is a private company with their relevant terms and conditions, and not a court of law. They are therefor not required to publicize private company data.
Why would they? Most sites TOS already stipulate that by uploading data to the service, you grant a global irrevocable unlimited license to use all submitted data for any business purpose without your further consent. I'd be surprised if Twitter didn't have this for years.
You have signed over the right to Twitter, not random third parties. They are not using Twitter's embed API to render the content, but even if they did it wouldn't automatically absolve them from having to get permission. Plenty of courts have already ruled on this in the copyright owner's favor (specifically for Twitter and Instagram embeds in fact).
I thought it might be something like that. Twitter needs to fix this or developers like you will be facing the consequences of their actions. Facebook's permissions are much more granular.
I'm gonna guess it often isn't even their content but is user content they are protecting. So, sounds like a big subsidy/protection racket for Twitter or whatever to train on their users' public content but not let others.
Umm, can't just Twitter disallow this in their EULA and delete all users who engage in this behavior? Besides, doesn't Twitter have some kind of intellectual ownership of tweets posted there, so a competitor can't just scrape the site and display the results as their own?
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