When I first stumbled across this website, I was pretty amazed! In an effort to fight plagiarism, tweetCC, a newly-launched Twitter service developed by Andy Clarke and Brian Suda, enables Twitterers to publish and license their tweets with Creative Commons.
According to Twitter’s TOS (Terms of Service), it has clearly stated that “We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the Twitter service. Your profile and materials uploaded remain yours. You can remove your profile at any time by deleting your account. This will also remove any text and images you have stored in the system. We encourage users to contribute their creations to the public domain or consider progressive licensing terms.”
The founders says on the website that the idea came to them when a conversation of Andy and Brian wanting to show tweets and avatars for a new book on web design but he is required to get permission to republish it.
Basically, how this free service works is simple. All you need to do is to send a reply via Twitter to tweetCC with the follwing words “@tweetcc: I license my tweets under a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication license”. You’ll then be included the list. If you want to find which Twitterers has licensed their tweets, you can check it out here.
Currently, there are over 900+ Twitterers who license their tweets under a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication license using tweetCC.