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Who Owns Your Tweets?

Twitter has revised its terms of services so that users retain their rights to any content they submit, post or display on or through the micro-blogging service. However, "By submitting, posting or displaying content on or through the services, you grant (Twitter) a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such content in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed)." This clause basically allows users to prevent anyone else -- except Twitter -- from re-publishing their tweets for profit.

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