We're not going to pay AP's extortion fees and we're not going to allow them to control free speech!

Recent AP vs fair use threads ^ | June 17, 2008 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

This is our Boston tea Party.

The Associated Press wants to levy a $12.50 and up license fee (aka extortion fee) on any blogger who quotes more than 4 words from one of their propaganda pieces. This is an outrageous attempt to control the blogosphere and free speech itself. To hell with their license fee and to hell with the AP. Any AP article that gets posted to FR will be jettisoned into the harbor posthaste.

Please do not post any AP material to FR excerpted or not.

[reagan_fanatic]

BTTT

[Panzerlied]

Sic Transit Gloria AP!

[Biggirl]

Bump for you Jim!

[Blennos]

No great loss here. The wildly partisan “news” outlets such as AP and Reuters are helping themselves along the road to eventual extinction.

[ConservativeMan55]

We’re behind you 100 percent Jim!

They are trying to control free speech.

The AP and the other Dinosaur media are trying to find ways
to keep from being scrutinized.

They’re using this and the Fairness Doctrine to try and quiet the new media.

[TexasCajun]

Should we allow AP to make its own rules defining (restricting) Fair Use or should we boycott them?

" Tell 'em boss! To hell with that, and to hell with AP! "

[Skooz]

You da man, Jim.

[Billthedrill]

I will say it’ll lower my blood pressure not having AP around. They are truly on a par with al Jazeera. BTT.

[Fishtalk]

I guess the vaunted Associated Press is above the law.

For there is already a perfectly adequete “Fair Use” law that protects from plagiarism but allows for a “fair use” of content.

This silly edict by them is going to make them more enemies than friends.

[LibWhacker]

OMG! Selectively enforced, I’m sure.

Roger, no AP articles.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

What’s the AP?

[YOUGOTIT]

BRAVO! AP = Anti-American Poop and they have always been a supporter of al-Qaeda just like CNN.

[ShadowAce]

[gunnedah]

Lets just bill them $15.00 for every article that shows up on our computer.

[gridlock]

The AP is shooting themselves in the foot, here. If people are not permitted to post their pieces, nobody is going to see them.

Not many people are going to drop coins in a slot to read AP stories in a newspaper. If they want to stop the Internet so they can get off, that is their choice.

[JRandomFreeper]

Please do not post any AP material

That's 7 words that I'm sure have appeared in the AP somewhere. Pay up.

It's hard to string 5 words together that HAVEN'T appeared in AP somewhere.

AP just screwed the pooch.

/johnny

[Bahbah]

Roger!

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Anyone got the AP’s billing address?

[FMBass]

Joseph Goebbels is saddened.