Twitter threatens legal action against Meta Platforms over Threads

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Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads

Twitter has threatened to sue Meta Platforms over Threads, alleging the new app is a "copycat" built by former Twitter employees using the company's intellectual property.

Semafor obtained a legal letter from Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on 5 July 2023, a day before Threads rolled out.
 
“Twitter knows that these employees previously worked at Twitter, that these employees had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information, that these employees owe ongoing obligations to Twitter, and that many of these employees have improperly retained Twitter documents and electronic devices,” Spiro wrote.
I believe that their obligations to Twitter ended the moment you fired them. In fact, based on some other articles, it is Twitter that owes the employees ongoing obligations in the form of severence (something like that, I can't be bothered to look it up).

Plus, didn't Musk say that the old Twitter code was sh*t and slow and caused too many problems? Why would he be worried about a competitor implementing the same sh*tty code?
 
I believe that their obligations to Twitter ended the moment you fired them. In fact, based on some other articles, it is Twitter that owes the employees ongoing obligations in the form of severence (something like that, I can't be bothered to look it up).

Plus, didn't Musk say that the old Twitter code was sh*t and slow and caused too many problems? Why would he be worried about a competitor implementing the same sh*tty code?

But Elon said these engineers didn't do any work at Twitter for ages (and fired them).... now he is unhappy
Nearly every employment contract I ever signed has a clause where if I developed something which is used in my day to day job it is the company property.

I would think if a company employed you to develop code for the company, you cant just steal and reuse the code in another company.
 
It's interesting how objectivity goes out the window the minute people see Musk is involved.

If there are copyright violations in terms of IP, that's obviously an issue. If Threads is using Twitter data or code to create a competing product, that's obviously an issue. I don't know the veracity of the claims, but if they've gone legal you can assume there's something to it.
 
Nearly every employment contract I ever signed has a clause where if I developed something which is used in my day to day job it is the company property.

I would think if a company employed you to develop code for the company, you cant just steal and reuse the code in another company.
I had the same. If the code is copied and paste then courts can say yes... it's copied. But if you dev new code on knowledge how is that going to be copyright by courts?
 
If they can prove he learnt it at Twitter its as good as copyright
Hahahahahahahah.... doesn't make sense.

How is gaining experience (learning to code,working etc) a copyright ? That means all code is copyrighted .. because people learned on the job and moved on.
 
Hahahahahahahah.... doesn't make sense.

How is gaining experience (learning to code,working etc) a copyright ? That means all code is copyrighted .. because people learned on the job and moved on.
Learning the code then copying it will be subject to copyright even if it is from his memory and proven he duplicated some of it
 
Nearly every employment contract I ever signed has a clause where if I developed something which is used in my day to day job it is the company property.

I would think if a company employed you to develop code for the company, you cant just steal and reuse the code in another company.
its more complicated than that.. California is not friendly to non compete and restraint of trade written in contracts.. they are unenforacble. (much like the rest of the world) - even so, when they were 'fired' - was the employment contract adhered to? due process etc etc... If not, then twitter is in breach and the contract may as-well be ripped up.
As to inventions/patents (USA that is) - are owned by the person who invented it - it has to expressly be signed over to the company. If you are paid to 'Make X which is patented' then company owns it - Ifr you invent something for general use, then you own it and the company has a license to use it. The shoprite doctrine is its common name.


Welcome to 'Merica :D
 
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