Musk's X is trying to stop The Onion from buying Alex Jones' social media accounts.

Does it feel like your X account belongs to you and you can do whatever you want with it? That’s not true, according to a new court filing from the social media company formerly known as Twitter. It’s an argument that X is making in order to throw a wrench in The Onion’s recent purchase of InfoWars, the conspiracy theory media company run by Alex Jones. And it’s a great reminder that you don’t actually own what you think you own in the digital age.

  • Hawke@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    8 days ago

    Nope.

    as a user, “you retain your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Services. What’s yours is yours you own your Content (and your photos and videos are part of the Content),” although you also grant Twitter a license to use the content, which authorizes it “to make your Content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same.” Based on this language, other twitter users are also licensed to copy and redistribute your posts by “retweeting” them.

    https://copyrightalliance.org/faqs/tweets-protected-copyright/

    • JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      8 days ago

      Really ? I think you’ll find that clause means you do not own copyright to anything you post on X.

      • FooBarrington@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        Really? How do you get that from “you retain your rights and give Twitter a license to use your content”? Retaining rights literally means not giving them up.

    • piccolo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      315·
      8 days ago

      Congratulations on reading the twitter TOS. Now tell me if it is legal for a company to lay claim on copyright via a TOS.

        • piccolo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          417·
          8 days ago

          I thought we were talking about who legally can lay claim on copyrights in the hypothetically house with a whiteboard? i’m not the one lost with the program.

          • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 days ago

            You see, x is the pen, Infowars is the ink and we’re the contents of the water bowl all along

            Skibidi dibidi bop