Twitter has a take-down policy to handle claims for copyright infringement. Under the DMCA Twitter is provided “safe harbour” from copyright claims so long as it does not try to protect infringing material. Typically claims will involve embedded material in tweets such as videos or images, so this case was somewhat unusual in that it concerned the content of the tweet itself. Anyone can submit a claim through Twitter’s Web Form and Twitter will then review the claim and decide whether it appears to be valid. If it decides to take action in relation to the claim, Twitter can then remove the offending tweet. The company’s policy is to then give the offending user 10 days to file a counter notice if the user objects.