Retweet Photos are cropped up and down are infringed by the Supreme Court July 21 17:21

When the photo was retweeted on Twitter, the top and bottom of the author were automatically cut off due to the specifications of Twitter, and the author's name was not displayed, the Supreme Court decided that the right owned by the author was infringed Was shown.

A man from a photographer in Sapporo posted a name on the corner of a photograph of Suzuran and posted it on his homepage, but the image was tweeted without permission and the image was retweeted by Twitter's specifications. The top and bottom are automatically cropped and the male name is no longer displayed.

The man filed an action requesting Twitter to disclose the information of those who retweet, and the Intellectual Property High Court of the second instance ordered the disclosure of the email address, and Twitter had appealed.

In a judgment on the 21st, Judge Saburo Tokura of the 3rd Small Court of the Supreme Court said, "Even if you can see the original image with the name of the author by clicking the image of the retweet, unless you click the image, You don't see the author's name."

After that, we decided that the fact that the name of the copyright holder was not displayed due to retweet was infringement of the "right to display the name" held by the author, rejected Twitter's appeal, and emails of those who retweet I ordered to disclose the address.