Copyfraud is a latecomer to Twitter. What a surprise, then, to learn that Twitter, Inc. does not currently own a trademark on “tweet.” Some tech rivals got there before Twitter did. And they were far from the first to market a tweet. A Long Island company trademarked Tweet for its line of dolls in 1943.
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