“You better think twice before hitting retweet because there are some vengeful potential plaintiffs out there. King’s College and its football coach were sued for copyright infringement for retweeting a link to an unauthorized image of a single page of a book.” [Michael Lee, Morrison Lee via Timothy Geigner, Techdirt]
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Does a retweet actually make a new post of the image or simply provide another link to the existing image? If simply another link, does this mean that linking is now infringement? I thought you had to copy the copyrighted material in order to infringe… Not simply write something like https://this.that.theother/file/path/to/material/nameoffile.ext since that grouping of characters is not copyrighted, and probably not even eligible for copyright. Once again, IANAL and I don’t even play one on TV.