Intellectual Property Magazine
Dangers of retweeting
A recentsupreme court ruling from Japan found that automatic trimming of images couldgive rise to infringement of moral rights
Hiroyuki Tanaka and Kaei Ro, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
On 21 July, 2020, the Supreme Court of Japan (the SC) ruledthat users of the Twitter social network service who “retweet”
may be found toinfringe an author’s moral rights.