Twitter suspended Deadspin and SBNation’s accounts for sharing NFL GIFs

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by Sindy Cator on October 13, 2015 at 6:49 am

Posted In: Around the Web, copyright violation

Twitter has temporarily suspended the account for Gawker Media’s sports site Deadspin for violating copyright by sharing GIFs and videos of highlights from NFL games. It also suspended one of Vox Media’s SB Nation accounts for tweeting GIFs of college football games. Gawker Media Executive Editor John Cook told Recode: “We got 18 takedown notices about 16 tweets. All of the tweets included GIFs, and all of the requests were filed by the NFL. The account was reinstated after we appealed the deactivation. The tweets in question are still up, but Twitter has of its own accord stripped them of…