Twitter TOS - "inspired by Flickr"?

These terms of service were inspired, with permission, by Flickr.

What does a TOS "inspired by Flickr" exactly mean? You don't see this line in any other TOS...

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strutting says:

Yeah, "inspired by" isn't a term of art as far as I know. Probably means "ripped off from?" ;)
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

Todd Barnard says:

"inspired" = copy, paste, find and replace "Flickr" with "Twitter".
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

Why reinvent the wheel, tho? Flickr often has good plain-English documentation, and there's only so much room for variance in legal text.

Good that it was done with permission. :)
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

Thomas Hawk says:

sorry to hear about what happened to you. blogged about it here:

thomashawk.com/2008/05/can-you-stalk-and-harr ass-people-o...
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

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