Twitter to flag tweets accused of violating copyrights

Twitter has adopted a new policy for how it handles tweets that contain or link to copyright infringing material and will no longer delete them from its feed in an effort to shed more light on how it processes take-down notices from copyright owners. Instead, Twitter will flag to other users that the tweet in question is being withheld from the website's feed for copyright reasons after it receives a "valid" take-down notice from a copyright owner, a Twitter spokesman said. The tweet will be flagged by Twitter "until such time as we get (if we ever do) a valid counter-response from the user," according to the spokesman.