Maverick Twitter Account Shot Down

There was outrage on social media this week when a Twitter account which was being used to tweet the film Top Gun was suspended after the film studio complained it amounted to copyright infringement.

The account of user @555uhz was being used to tweet Top Gun frame by frame, with the user posting updates including captions at a rate of two per hour over a period of over a month. The majority of the film was still to be covered at the time of the account's suspension. Over this period, the account had gained around 7000 followers and posted over 1,500 tweets.

Although the Twitter version was non-commercial and significantly edited, Paramount Pictures' lawyers stated that this retelling of the film breached its copyright.