After my mother passed away I ended up with a big box full of old film negatives containing photos from childhood family trips and similar. So I decided to buy a negative photo scanner and found that the Plustek 8200i was supported under Linux so I bought that. Only to discover that the chipset in...
It’s the latter. At least IMO
Well, no law maker on earth cares about the latter and no court has decided that prompting for a bit (in this case pasting an existing Tweet) grands original copyright, so whatever we may think, it’s public domain.
Personally, I think copyright as been abused so much, I have little sympathy for it.