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Alex Spiro, lawyer of ex-chief executive officer (CEO) Of the Twitter, Elon Musk, sent a letter to Meta in which it accuses the company that owns the Instagram, Facebook and the newly released Threads, of infringing the intellectual property rights of the microblogging social network, in addition to violating market secrets and taking former employees of the Twitter to create the new platform. Details of the letter's text, such as the Meta is dealing with the case and the first repercussions you see here, at showmetech. Follow: 4i5e3i
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The rival app Twitter, released on Wednesday (05), sparked an alert in the legal sector of the social network commanded by Musk and now for the new CEO, Linda Yaccarino: the new app works with text publications, with options very similar to the bird's network (like, comment, repost, etc.), but without sending private messages, for now.
Once Threads was available to s, Alex Spiro decided to send a letter to himself CEO da Meta, Mark Zuckerberg. The lawyer states in the text that intellectual and commercial appropriation with the launch of the social network Threads, he was "systematic, purposeful and contrary to law“. Excerpt from the letter below:
Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate action to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or any other confidential information.
Alex Spiro, on legal representation for Twitter.
Spiro still warns that the Twitter may seek civil remedies andjudicial measures at any time, to prevent the appropriation or violation” of market secrets and “intellectual property“. at the end of letter, the lawyer warns that the services of the social network can be used, but as long as they are in accordance with the code structure of the Twitter, in addition to the permission given by the consent of the company.
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The trade fight between the two businessmen has already reached different levels. Recently, Musk, for example, tried to call Zuckerberg for a fight in an octagon. Outside the ring, the owner of Threads, is already opposing the version of the legal body of the Twitter. In response, the Director of Communications for Meta, Andy Stone, published on its own website (check the image) what "no one on the engineering team Threads, was an employee of Twitter — that's not an issue".
After you arrived at Twitter, Musk promoted mass layoffs. In an interview for with the BBC, he said he had laid off 6 employees. The cut ultimately resulted in a staff decrease of 80%. According to the businessman, the company had a “negative cash flow situation at $3 billion“, which represents more than R$ 14,7 billion, in the current conversion.
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Besides the BlueSky and Koo, Twitter will have to face the growth of Threads,: second Zuckerberg, just in the 12 hours following the launch of the new network, 30 million people have ed the application. At the moment, to access it, it is necessary to have an on Instagram. The focus is so great on s of the photo network that the CEO do Instagram, Adam Mosseri, has already described the Threads, as a more accessible medium.
[…] We made this process easier with the integration [with Instagram], allowing you to automatically fill in your information and follow people.
Adam Mosseri
Per hour, Zuckerberg already has more than a million followers on the rival app Twitter. However, it's a bit early to predict whether they'll all stick around. In addition, there is the weight of a complicated history in investing in other projects: initiatives from Meta , the Poke e Parse closed, for example.
O Threads, came at a troubled time for the Twitter. On Saturday (01), who opened the timeline from the bird network saw that there was a limit on the number of publications available: one of the main restrictions was being able to read up to 600 tweets, in the case of people without the verification stamp. Regarding the problem, Musk related the adoption of the measure to the extraction of data from the social network.
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Text proofread by: Pedro Bomfim (06/07/23)
It must be more garbage created by Zuckerberg. Twitter in the hands of Musk has leveled up considerably!