Twitter is now in the crosshairs of the music industry and nearly two dozen U.S. lawmakers. A bipartisan group of 22 members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to Twitter chief Jack Dors…
We write to you regarding the ongoing problem of copyright infringement on Twitter and the platform’s apparent refusal to address it.
Additional infringing content almost certainly goes undiscovered as Twitter has taken the unprecedented step of charging creators for a fully functional search API that can identify instances infringement at scale. To be clear, the standard API Twitter offers free of charge is of such limited functionality that it cannot provide meaningful results at the scale of infringement occurring on the platform.
Entering into licensing agreements would thus avoid the status quo in which creators rely on crowd-funded donations while Twitter continues to profit from infringement of their works. 1. What will Twitter do to enable content owners to meaningfully search for and identify infringement of their works at a scale commensurate with the amount of infringing tweets occurring on the platform at no additional cost to them?