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Re:Twitter Thread Compiler Apps and Copyright Ethics by Scaevolus on Saturday February 23, 2019 @08:19PM (#19236509)
It looks like you retain the copyright, but you grant twitter and others (!) the right to display your work without compensation. I'm not a lawyer, though!

"By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed).

This license authorizes us to make your Content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same... Such additional uses by Twitter, or other companies, organizations or individuals, may be made with no compensation paid to you with respect to the Content that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Services."

https://twitter.com/en/tos

Re:Twitter Thread Compiler Apps and Copyright Ethics by deogeo on Saturday February 23, 2019 @08:26PM (#19236545)
> you grant us a worldwide

So if we were to colonize Mars, Twitter wouldn't have rights to the content there? What about Earth orbit?

Re:Twitter Thread Compiler Apps and Copyright Ethics by ceejayoz on Saturday February 23, 2019 @09:51PM (#19236837)
This is actually an interesting legal question.

I suspect courts will interpret "worldwide" to mean "universal" if it comes up, as the intent seems clear.