Piccolo draws comics of tweets

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1. Jeff Stanson

   Best idea yet to make tweets useful…

2. Eddie Pittman

   I’m curious, at what point does this become copyright infringement? Don’t get me wrong, it’s brilliant and very funny, but isn’t there a chance artists are getting carried away and stealing the words of others to create comic content?

3. Dave Stephens

   Good question! Can I take any Tweet and draw it or are some Tweets copyrighted?

4. Eddie Pittman

   According to U.S. copyright law, everything we create is copyrighted at the time of creation. In theory this applies to Tweets as well.

5. Darrin Bell

   I’ve been drawing my tweets for a while. To me, Twitter’s a focus group. When something I’ve posted gets retweeted a bunch of times, that tells me there’s a strip in it.

6. Stephen Beals

   I wouldn’t be surprised if we see bumper stickers or T-Shirts with stolen Tweets on them.

   “Stolen Tweets?” What have we turned into?

7. Scott Metzger

   I was thinking the same thing.

   I mean, why not make it *really* easy and steal from a professional comedian? Like, say, Jim Gaffigan? His Tweets are consistently funny. It?s one-stop shopping (okay, stealing) for comedy gold.

   ?I like to think of guacamole as Mexican peanut butter.? – © Jim Gaffigan

   “For Father’s Day, my four-year-old son gave me a crayon drawing. For Christmas, I think I’ll draw him a picture of some presents.” – © Jim Gaffigan

   “Why is diarrhea so hard to spell but so easy to get?” – © Jim Gaffigan

8. Scott Metzger

   my comment was referring to Eddie’s comment (#2)

9. Eddie Pittman

   @Scott I think you might stumbled onto the solution and that is to just put a copyright symbol after everything we post on the web. maybe Twitter can allow a few more characters above the 140 so we can all protect ourselves. 😉 ? © Eddie Pittman