Mark Cuban Wonders About His Twitter Rights

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• Justin Walsh Posted: Mar.30 at 10:33 am
  twitter is a mess for some NBA people (Charlie V, the fake stern haha, Mark Cuban)

• Hisham Posted: Mar.30 at 10:34 am
  Eboyyyy

• Eboy Posted: Mar.30 at 10:41 am
  Tweeting is NOT copyrightable. All the tweets belongs to Twitter. This is not that hard to comprehend. Cuban’s just looking for an angle that’s not there.

• Roy Posted: Mar.30 at 10:42 am
  Co-sign @ Justin Walsh. I didn’t know “David Stern” had a twitter account. hahahaha!!!

• jay Posted: Mar.30 at 10:44 am
  Maybe he should ask magic. I mean, he saw crazy angles!

• Ryan Jones Posted: Mar.30 at 10:49 am
  Has there been a public figure yet who has used twitter and not embarrassed themselves with it? Stupid, stupid, stupid.

• Jukai Posted: Mar.30 at 10:53 am
  Internet is public domain, internet is public domain, internet is public domain, intern…

• Gerard Himself Posted: Mar.30 at 10:54 am
  thank you farmer Jones.

• nate james Posted: Mar.30 at 10:56 am
  wow tweeting is so lame. do nba players have nothing better to do? honestly. wtf is mark cuban doing tweeting anyways?
  (probably mav games are boring to watch)

• Fred34 Posted: Mar.30 at 10:59 am
  New headline – Tweet Accountability: Friend or Foe? …What a friggin lame joke. Can we end the twitterscape nonsense already?

• Mo Charlo Posted: Mar.30 at 11:00 am
  Pete Carroll hasn’t looked stupid on twitter yet. His are just motivational.

• Mo Charlo Posted: Mar.30 at 11:00 am
  Lang Whitaker hasn’t embarrassed himself on Twitter.

• Eboy Posted: Mar.30 at 11:03 am
  Twittering wouldn’t be so bad if it had a cooler name. You can’t sound manly when you say “I just twittered” or “Did you read my tweet?” C’mon now. If that sh*t was called This Is What The Fu*k I’m Doing Right Now, it could get a pass.

• Mo Charlo Posted: Mar.30 at 11:04 am
  Eboy, did you see where Steven Colbert said that he has “twatted” on the Today show?

• Justin Walsh Posted: Mar.30 at 11:08 am
  for the record, 90% of cuban’s tweets are about the financial world, his HDNET company, and how to get out of the recession, so the majority of the time his tweets are actually very worthwhile

• TADOne Posted: Mar.30 at 11:08 am
  That pic is disturbing.

• Fred34 Posted: Mar.30 at 11:14 am
  Am I the only one so old that hearing “Twit” makes me think of one of the best Monty Python bits of all time?

• Fred34 Posted: Mar.30 at 11:15 am
  Monty Python Upperclass Twit of the Year – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSqkdcT25ss

• Michael Posted: Mar.30 at 12:10 pm
  the only thing lamer than facebook status upadates would be an entire application devoted to them – which twitter appears to be

• Ryan Jones Posted: Mar.30 at 12:28 pm
  Nice find, Fred.

• B. Long Posted: Mar.30 at 12:28 pm
  For some one who has banned bloggers from his locker rooms he sure is worried about everyone’s online rights. Ass.

• Mo Charlo Posted: Mar.30 at 1:56 pm
  you’re old, jones

• Tuomas Posted: Mar.30 at 2:02 pm
  Thanks Fred, it had been too long since I saw that sketch. Should I be worried about how relevant it still is, especially when twittering and NBA are discussed? I’m thinking probably.

• Zee! Posted: Mar.30 at 2:48 pm
  Twitter got old real quick once everyone and their momma decided to get an account. You can bet Mike Vick’s agent is gonna get him one the minute he gets cell phone access.

• vtrobot Posted: Mar.30 at 3:14 pm
  As much as twitting and tweeting and twatting bothers me, it doesn’t bother me as much as NBA refereeing. Seriously, what was up with that lack of a foul call in the backcourt when the Spurs were intentionally fouling CP3 last night? Do there need to be more refs on the court? Why are so many things more clear to me in my living room than they are to the officials standing on the court. This is very bad. Not looking forward to the wrong calls, no-calls, and inconsistent calls in the Playoffs.

• Dutch Rich Posted: Mar.30 at 3:22 pm
  Boy E, I’m a little disappointed with your answer on the copyright matter.
  Was hoping you could clarify or come back on your answer which I think is faulty. It’s not an obvious matter since most laws on digital data/content aren’t even written yet. Cubes might be the one to take this to a higher court to establish precedent. What do you think?

• Russ Bengtson Posted: Mar.30 at 3:34 pm
  I hope people repeat and re-tweet and publish my Twitterings. Then again, I’m not a loose cannon billionaire.

• Russ Bengtson Posted: Mar.30 at 3:36 pm
  And since ANYONE on there can follow you unless you set your ish to private, and signing up for Twitter is both simple and free, I don’t think he has a legal leg to stand on.

• Dutch Rich Posted: Mar.30 at 3:44 pm
  Twitter is too new for anyone to fully have considered the full extent of legal ramifications. I am not saying I know the answer but the ish is extremely complex. If one were to write letters that someone else got a hold on and decided to publish there would be a lawsuit following.
  If I decided to publish a coffee table book with Shaq’s best tweets, he would sue me unless there’s a usage agreement. Internet being public domain has nothing to do with ownership of content. Mark’s question in my opinion is very valid. This might be what has him smiling about the whole thing.

• Eboy Posted: Mar.30 at 4:38 pm
  Dutch……..there is a user agreement you enter into once you sign up for a Twitter account, Facebook, Myspace….blah, blah, blah. Everything (very clearly in most cases) is outlined there in pretty font for all the world too read. The problem……how many people read the user agreements through and through….if ever? I’m sorry you were dissapointed in my answer. If he was smart…..oh wait….he’s a megagenuis….he would just have someone develop another Mark Cuban@ from wherever he built his account and then claimed someone hacked his sh*t and be done with it. His problem is…..he always has something to say.

• Jacob Posted: Mar.30 at 6:02 pm
  Mark Cuban looks like Rosie O’Donnell in his picture

• Russ Bengtson Posted: Mar.30 at 6:21 pm
  ^^ He’s totally going to sue you for saying that.

• Joel O's Posted: Mar.30 at 6:30 pm
  I don’t think it’s a question of twitter content – I think it’s a question of criticizing the organization you’re in. People lose their jobs for blogging about their companies, and I know that blogging about sensitive information is a definite no-no in the military. But Cuban isn’t an employee in the NBA, he’s part of the *ownership*.

• Joel O's Posted: Mar.30 at 6:33 pm
  Again, this is another case of Stern throwing out a knee-jerk fine at the slightest criticism of his referees, without even examining whether the criticism holds weight. I’m getting sick of this. Didn’t he fine Doc Rivers just a fortnight ago for criticizing a ref – and then fine the ref in question right after?

• Dutch Rich Posted: Mar.30 at 6:48 pm
  E…. the user agreement says that you are responsible for your content. It also says that published content falls under federal copyright law. So if one is to re-use it without permission that would mean violating copyright law. Twitter does however say this “We encourage users to contribute their creations to the public domain or consider progressive licensing terms.” solely to protect their own interest and to encourage more users to come on board. This whole twitter thing is a pretty open agreement cruising for lawsuits. I think his question is ” should I copyright everything I tweet”, that way I might get my 25K back from ESPN through litigation. He does have a big mouth, and you get props for proposing the cover-up lie. All kidding aside, this is an interesting topic that still resides in a gray zone. I think it’s something that will soon get completely out of hand too. I hope it will so it will disappear altogether.

• Russ Bengtson Posted: Mar.30 at 7:33 pm
  All I know is if I didn’t want something being widely disseminated, I sure as hell wouldn’t Twitter it. And I only have 240-odd followers, not however the hell many Cubes has.

• Bill Loving Posted: Mar.30 at 7:49 pm
  Copyright exists when there is fixation of a minimal amount of creativity in tangible form.
  A twitter is likely to be sufficiently creative to merit copyrightability. Now, who has the copyright is subject to agreements and contractual arrangements. You can, through a writing, transfer your copyright to someone else.

• CP34MVP Posted: Mar.30 at 8:22 pm
  Twitter, Shall we ask Shaq? Wasnt he in law..

• Teddy-the-Bear Posted: Mar.30 at 10:47 pm
  LMFAO @ Jacob. That had me laughing almost as loud as when Jukai said Tony Parker was second in the MVP race!

• Dacre Posted: Mar.31 at 12:34 am
  ^^^ I thought Jukai was refering to the MOST VALUABLE PARKER and with Candace coming in first, surely Tony was second…. I don’t have a tweeter, I’ve never read one and I feel I am a better person for it.

• ciroqobama Posted: Mar.31 at 3:19 pm
  Twitter is retarded

• donlaker Posted: Mar.31 at 4:18 pm
  twitter rhymes with john ritter(3′s company)

• Teddy-the-Bear Posted: Mar.31 at 11:25 pm
  Heh, good one Dacre. Jukai was too stupid to come up with as good of an excuse as that. What a dumb@ss, huh?

• German Reignman Posted: Apr.1 at 8:29 am
  I announce Zee! `s post at 2:48 as candidate for “Comment of the Year” …. putting Michael Vick and “cell phone access” in the same sentence is pure genius…

• data187 Posted: Apr.1 at 9:52 am
  the best tweeter joke was from colbert..
  when asked if he uses tweeter, he replied with yes, i’ve twatted.

• interaction design Posted: Apr.8 at 1:14 am
  Dutch, Twitter is not new at all. I have known about it since Jan 2007 (had an account since March of ’07), and the site launched in early 2006. But im pretty sure that the terms & conditions have a section about everything being under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0… not positive, I know identi.ca uses that license though and they’re pretty much a twitter clone.