How Do I License My Tweets?
By Tim Barsness | December 29, 2009
We talked last week about who owns our tweets and discovered that ultimately, the creator of a tweet owns that tweet. In Twitter’s terms of service, they recommend that you license your tweets using a creative commons license. Doing this could cut down on legal ambiguity in the future and provide others with the ability to use content you likely don’t actually require the explicit license to.
So, how do you license your tweets? There isn’t a way on Twitter to apply a certain license to your tweets or even your account. One common way to accomplish this is to explicitly tweet that you licensed your tweets under a certain license. Tweet CC takes this one step further by providing an archive of people who have licensed their tweets under a creative commons public domain license.
Tweet CC doesn’t provide a means of licensing your content in another way, such as using the popular Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. That doesn’t mean you can’t do so. One popular way of applying a license to your content is to tweet which license you would like to use with a link to it. So, license your tweets today and let the world know your intentions for your content.
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