Without Warning, Twitter Kills StatTweets

Re:Without Warning, Twitter Kills StatTweets by sachinag on Monday May 04, 2009 @01:23PM (#592675)

You're wrong about the stats of the game. NBA v. Motorola cleared up that stats - even real-time stats - are not an exhibition of the game and can be freely disseminated as they are reports of factual occurrences. First useful Google hit: http://lsolum.typepad.com/copyfutures/2004/09/several_of_my_... The sports leagues' disclaimers are empty nothingness.

IANAL, but I've been working on 1st Amendment stuff as a layperson since 1997.

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Re:Without Warning, Twitter Kills StatTweets by lacker on Tuesday May 05, 2009 @01:35AM (#593701)

Actually I don't think this issue is clear legally. In NBA v. Motorola it was taken into account that Stats Inc gathered the statistics themselves which is not the case here. Plus at least in some jurisdictions there is the "hot news" doctrine that protects breaking news even though it is a fact. So the disclaimers are not empty nothingness, it is still a legal grey area.

e.g.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/the-ap-hot-news-and...

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Re:Without Warning, Twitter Kills StatTweets by snorkel on Monday May 04, 2009 @05:15PM (#593091)

Right or wrong, for Twitter it's not even worth the risk or effort to test if that is true or not. Google/YouTube operates the same way: killing the account and taking the PR griping is cheaper than paying lawyers to sort it out.

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Re:Without Warning, Twitter Kills StatTweets by pj on Monday May 04, 2009 @01:42PM (#592707)

Thanks for pointing that out!

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