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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/16/2013 11:44 AM, John D. Burger
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote
cite="mid:95FA3C57-1D5A-4CA2-AE62-7439574D6A1E@mitre.org"
type="cite">There appears to be no legal reason you can't collect
a corpus of tweets. However, per Twitter's Terms of Use you
cannot redistribute the tweets to others.<br>
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At first I thought, "that's nuts." Then I thought, "well, if
you consider tweets to be creative works like books and songs, it
makes a certain sense." Then I concluded that that just shows how
nuts our intellectual property system has become. And of course
that nobody cares what a bunch of linguists think about our
intellectual property system.<br>
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BTW, did everyone catch list member Patrick Juola in the news
for helping identify J.K. Rowling as the author of <i>The Cuckoo's
Calling</i>?<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/education/duquesne-prof-helps-id-rowling-as-author-695629/">http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/education/duquesne-prof-helps-id-rowling-as-author-695629/</a><br>
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-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:grvsmth@panix.com">grvsmth@panix.com</a>
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