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Brad Dielman
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Web designer and developer living and working in Northeast Ohio
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Aerial view of the White House with multiple red map pointer icons above it.
July 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Here’s Elon Musk in court arguing that you don’t own your account on twitter and each individual account can’t be sold or transferred—including in bankruptcy—without his leave. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
3. Accounts on X are governed by the X Terms of Service ("TOS")? Under both the Prepetition TOS and the Current TOS, all right, title, and interest in and to X Corp.'s services, including X Corp.'s various websites, SMS, APIs, email notifications, applications, buttons, widgets, ads, commerce services, and other covered services (collectively, the "Services") are X Corp.'s "exclusive property." See Prepetition TOS § 4; Current TOS § 4. X Corp., as the owner of the Services, grants each user "a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non- exclusive license to use the software provided" to use the Services. See Prepetition TOS § 4 (emphasis added); Current TOS § 4 (same). In contrast to the Services, the account holders own the Content (as defined in the TOS) they submit, post, or display on or through the Services; however, the Content is distinct and separate from the Services. ' The TOS in effect at the time of the Debtor's chapter 7 filing (Version 17, in effect as of June 10, 2022) are attached as Exhibit A (the "Prepetition TOS"); the TOS in effect today (Version 20, in effect as of November 15, 2024) are attached as Exhibit B (the "Current TOS"). With respect to which version of the TOS governs the X Accounts, see Paragraph 22 herein. 2 Case 22-33553 Document 937 Filed in TXSB on 11/25/24 Page 3 of 62 4. Pursuant to the Successful Bidder Notice, the Sale Motion, and to the extent applicable, the Jones IP Sale Motion, the Trustee now seeks to contravene X Corp.'s TOS by improperly selling or otherwise transferring the X Accounts (which neither Jones nor his bankruptcy estate own) to a third party. While X Corp. takes no position as to the sale of any Content posted on the X Accounts, X Corp. is the sole owner of the Services being sold as part of the sale of the X Accounts. While X Corp. has granted account holders, such as Jones and FSS, a license to use the Services, such license is non-assignable, both under the terms of the TOS and applicable n…
November 26, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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Well, now I know we made the right decisions
November 22, 2024 at 10:38 PM