[Corpora-List] Building a corpus from Twitter & Tw's privacy concerns

[Angus Grieve-Smith]

On 7/16/2013 11:44 AM, John D. Burger wrote:
> 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.

     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.

     BTW, did everyone catch list member Patrick Juola in the news for 
helping identify J.K. Rowling as the author of /The Cuckoo's Calling/?

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/education/duquesne-prof-helps-id-rowling-as-author-695629/

-- 
				-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
				grvsmth at panix.com

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