Mad Men Twitterers Taken Down
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 | No Comments »AMC enacted their copyright and had Twitter suspend the accounts associated with their Mad Men characters.
There are a lot of bloggers up-in-arms about this, as bloggers can be (read: “The DMCA sucks!” “Burn copyrights!” “Anarchy!”). Bloggers, who tend to be writers, creatives, artists, and marketing self-promoters are probably especially fond of Mad Men, and were, probably, like me, excited about further interacting with the characters. Twitter seemed to be a spot-on communications tool for the show.
I 100% agree that AMC (which pays for and owns the show) has the right to do this.
I just hope the cable network takes note of the moment and makes these Twitter accounts official. They should continue the good work of their anonymous (and probably now pissed-off) fans. I can only hope that staff writers or assistants are tasked with maintaining these accounts, and they don’t have to run things through legal before each post.
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