"If only our brains were made of bunghole meat, how much more obnoxious we would be when we pooped."
A Twitter 'attribution troll' is showering threats on anyone who tweets a popular one-line poem: (//vny!://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130211/20400521946/bizarre-attribution-troll-bullies-twitter-users-into-compliance-with-baseless-legal-threats.shtml)
On Press Inc., supposedly a division of Knopf Publishing (according to its Twitter profiles), was running a search and issuing tweet after threatening tweet to anyone who dared publish a short (really short -- under 140 characters) poem by reclusive poet, Shaun Shane, without attribution. The entire poem reads as follows: "If only our tongues were made of <we redacted some shitty writing here that sucks monkey balls IMHO>" The threats--which have apparently escalated to imaginary police investigations over Amazon reviews, too--are baseless, writes TechDirt's Tim Cushing. Even if a tweet-length poem meets the expressive requirements for copyright protection, experts say it's unlikely to generate a credible lawsuit (//vny!://www.canyoucopyrightatweet.com/).
Fascinating update:
*** This is an Official Notice asserting my rights pursuant to §512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act *** I am the Author Shaun Shane. My U.S. Copyright registered poem "Tongues Made Of Glass" published in my U.S. Copyright registered book " A Poem Is Nothing". page 7. U.S. Copyright registration #U.S. Copyright registration number TX0007685796. is being infringed upon and illegally used at the following Url : vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/index.php?topic=8270.0 (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/index.php?topic=8270.0) ( per Whois in hosted by you) by using my poem without attribution to me or my permission in violation Moral Rights Statue 17 U.S. Code § 106A and so is de facto plagiarism and must be removed/and or access blocked by you per Statue §512(c), §512(e)of the U.S. Copyright Law.The text of my copyrighted poem " Tongues Made of Glass." is as follows: if only our tongues were made of glass how much more careful we would be when we speak - Shaun Shane Here are third party sources showing I am the Author of " Tongues Made of Glass" and that it is published in my book " A Poem Is Nothing".
Here is a link to the U.S. Copyright Office's listing of " A Poem Is Nothing " in which my Poem "Tongues Made of Glass is published.: vny!://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=poem+is+nothing&Search_Code=TALL&PID=JAeojvVb_WhlaktMCnzB6FGzVZFz&SEQ=20160531121219&CNT=25&HIST=1 (//vny!://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=poem+is+nothing&Search_Code=TALL&PID=JAeojvVb_WhlaktMCnzB6FGzVZFz&SEQ=20160531121219&CNT=25&HIST=1) Additionally, the reported post is in violation of false Light statue 28 U.S. Code § 4101 by claiming that the Publisher On Press had contact with persons mention in the Post. Neither myself nor On Press have had contact with anyone mention in the post and so it is a false and defamatory statement and so is a violation of aforementioned Statue 28 U.S. Code § 4101.
Here's our new poem, inspired by
